CVE-2015-8777

Publication date

2016-01-20 02:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable.