Security Advisory

CVE-2017-1000408

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-02-01 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 22:00:41
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

A memory leak in glibc 2.1.1 (released on May 24, 1999) can be reached and amplified through the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.