Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1182

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-09-12 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 17:02:53
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in run-time linkers (1) ld.so or (2) ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name (argv[0]) and forcing ld.so/ld-linux.so to report an error.