cve-2017-1000408
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-01 04:00
Modified
2024-08-05 22:00
Severity ?
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.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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