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CVE-2010-3856

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
07/01/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

ld.so in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.11.3, and 2.12.x before 2.12.2, does not properly restrict use of the LD_AUDIT environment variable to reference dynamic shared objects (DSOs) as audit objects, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an unsafe DSO located in a trusted library directory, as demonstrated by libpcprofile.so.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.20
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.11.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.08:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.09.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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