Security Advisory

CVE-2000-0959

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-01-22 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 05:37:31
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

glibc2 does not properly clear the LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT and LD_DEBUG environmental variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.