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GHSA-8mm9-c4mg-vfjh
GHSA-8mm9-c4mg-vfjh
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 16, 2025
Untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable vulnerability in the GNU C Library version 2.27 to 2.38 allows attacker controlled loading of dynamically shared library in statically compiled setuid binaries that call dlopen (including internal dlopen calls after setlocale or calls to NSS functions such as getaddrinfo).
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
- May 16, 2025 CVE Published
- Apr 10, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7 url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00033.html url
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4802 advisory