When using the LD_PRELOAD environmental variable in SUID or SGID applications, glibc does not verify that preloaded libraries in /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID, which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a library from /lib or /usr/lib.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-05-07T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:06:55.519Z

Reserved: 2001-03-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2001-0169

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-03-26T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-20T23:34:45.633

Link: CVE-2001-0169

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2001-01-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2001-0169 - Bugzilla