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CVE-2007-3508
Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code…
High7.2EPSS 0.45%
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- mitre
Description
Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 60% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (10)
- 24758 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [libc-hacker] [PATCH] Fix LD_HWCAP_MASK handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2418 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- glibc-envvars-overflow(35240) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 37901 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1018334 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 25864 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200707-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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