Security Advisory

CVE-2002-1472

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2004-09-01 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 03:26:28

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in libX11.so in xfree86, when used in setuid or setgid programs, allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified LD_PRELOAD environment variable that points to a malicious module.

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