CVE-2007-3508

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    CVE-2007-3508

    Published: 3 Jul 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/25864, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2418, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844, http://osvdb.org/37901, http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24758, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334, http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-07/msg00001.html, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35240

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High