CVE-2017-1000409

Description

A buffer overflow in glibc 2.5 (released on September 29, 2006) and can be triggered through the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
• v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.88%• Percentile: 76%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

  The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

• gnu•glibc

  2.5

References (3)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43331/
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/385
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/