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Red Hat: CVE-2023-4911: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-4911: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/03/2023
Created
10/06/2023
Added
10/06/2023
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with elevated privileges.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-compat-libpthread-nonshared
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-all-langpacks
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-all-langpacks-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-benchtests
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-benchtests-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-common
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-common-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-gconv-extra
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-gconv-extra-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-langpack-aa
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  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-langpack-cmn
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-langpack-crh
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-langpack-cs
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  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-langpack-cv
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  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-langpack-zh
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-langpack-zu
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-locale-source
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-minimal-langpack
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-nss-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-static
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • redhat-upgrade-glibc-utils-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libnsl
  • redhat-upgrade-libnsl-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nscd
  • redhat-upgrade-nscd-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nss_db
  • redhat-upgrade-nss_db-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nss_hesiod
  • redhat-upgrade-nss_hesiod-debuginfo

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