Upstream information

CVE-2010-3847 at MITRE

Description

elf/dl-load.c in ld.so in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.2, and 2.12.x through 2.12.1, does not properly handle a value of $ORIGIN for the LD_AUDIT environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object (DSO) located in an arbitrary directory.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.9
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

Note from the SUSE Security Team

So far the published reproducer only produces an assertion failure and so the problem does not seem to exploitable. We are still investigating the issue.

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1008255 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE], 646960 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 648020 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 649949 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 687510 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

  • SUSE-SA:2010:052, published Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:00:00 +0000
    • openSUSE-SU-2010:0912-1 openSUSE-SU-2010:0913-1 openSUSE-SU-2010:0914-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11
  • glibc >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-32bit >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-devel >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-devel-32bit >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-html >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-i18ndata >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-info >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-locale >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-locale-32bit >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-locale-x86 >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-profile >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-profile-32bit >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-profile-x86 >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • glibc-x86 >= 2.9-13.11.1
  • nscd >= 2.9-13.11.1
 Patchnames:
slessp0-glibc

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for SAP Enterprise Search glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS glibc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 glibc Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 07:37:29 2013
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 2 15:28:44 2024