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CVE-2015-8777
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-01-20T05:59:01.237 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:13.493

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — glibc

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