Excessive privileges In glibc
Description
elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the "./" directory. NOTE: this configuration of RPATH/RUNPATH for a privileged program is apparently very uncommon; most likely, no such program is shipped with any common Linux distribution.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Package | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
debian 11 | 2.25-6 | ||
debian 14 | 2.25-6 | ||
debian 13 | 2.25-6 | ||
debian 12 | 2.25-6 | ||
rpm rhel5 | - | - | |
rpm rhel7 | 0:2.17-260.el7 | ||
rpm rhel7 | - | - | |
rpm rhel6 | - | - | |
rpm rhel6 | - | - | |
rpm rhel5 | - | - |
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