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CVE-2017-1000409 (GCVE-0-2017-1000409)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 22:00
VLAI
Summary
A buffer overflow in glibc 2.5 (released on September 29, 2006) and can be triggered through the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.
Severity
7.0 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43331/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/385 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2019040… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2018-01-31 00:00
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