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Bug 560420 (CVE-2015-8777)

Summary: <sys-libs/glibc-2.22-r1: LD_POINTER_GUARD in the environment is not sanitized (CVE-2015-8777)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major CC: atoth, toolchain
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260581
See Also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260581
Whiteboard: A2 [glsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 572416    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2015-09-14 09:18:43 UTC
From ${URL} :

A weakness in the dynamic loader has been found, making glibc of versions prior 2.22.90 affected. 
LD_POINTER_GUARD in the environment is not sanitizaed allowing attacker to easily bypass the 
pointer guarding protection on set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs.

Reproducing steps available at:

http://hmarco.org/bugs/glibc_ptr_mangle_weakness.html

CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/504


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-02-19 12:35:29 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201702-11 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).
Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-02-19 12:39:38 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201702-11 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).