Security Advisory

CVE-2023-4911

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-10-03 17:25:08
Last updated 2026-07-14 11:59:00
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with elevated privileges.