A memory leak in glibc 2.1.1 (released on May 24, 1999) can be reached and amplified through the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable.…

Description

A memory leak in glibc 2.1.1 (released on May 24, 1999) can be reached and amplified through the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.5% · top 27% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-772 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-772 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• 43331 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20171211 Qualys Security Advisory - Buffer overflow in glibc's ld.so (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20190627 Re: linux-distros membership application - Microsoft (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20190628 Re: linux-distros membership application - Microsoft (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20190628 Re: linux-distros membership application - Microsoft (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 22:00 UTC.