CVE-2017-1000408 (GCVE-0-2017-1000408)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 22:00
VLAI
Summary
A memory leak in glibc 2.1.1 (released on May 24, 1999) can be reached and amplified through the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2286 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2018-01-31 00:00
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