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HistoryOct 09, 2023 - 12:00 a.m.

K000137187 : GlibC vulnerability CVE-2023-4911

2023-10-0900:00:00
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glibc
buffer overflow
dynamic loader
local attacker
elevated privileges.

7.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.014 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.5%

Security Advisory 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. (CVE-2023-4911)

Impact

There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.