Security Advisory

CVE-2005-2072

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-06-29 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 22:15:36
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The runtime linker (ld.so) in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 trusts the LD_AUDIT environment variable in setuid or setgid programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by (1) modifying LD_AUDIT to reference malicious code and possibly (2) using a long value for LD_AUDIT.