National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0536

Overview

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in elf/dl-object.c in certain modified versions of the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6), including glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6 and glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object (DSO) in a subdirectory of the current working directory during execution of a (1) setuid or (2) setgid program that has $ORIGIN in (a) RPATH or (b) RUNPATH within the program itself or a referenced library. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-3847.

Description

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667974

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667974

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=96611391ad8823ba58405325d78cefeae5cdf699

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=96611391ad8823ba58405325d78cefeae5cdf699

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110203 Re: CVE request: glibc CVE-2010-3847 fix regression

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110203 CVE request: glibc CVE-2010-3847 fix regression

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/01/3

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://launchpad.net/bugs/701783

Hyperlink:https://launchpad.net/bugs/701783

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0863

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0863

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1009-2

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1009-2

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0413

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0413.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0412

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0412.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:178

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025289

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1025289

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 46397

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/46397

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43989

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43989

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43830

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43830

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13086

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13086

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2122-2

Hyperlink:http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2011/msg00005.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13086

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13086