ID:4405 - Exploit for Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Glibc - CVE-2010-3856

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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.

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