VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2001-0169

CVSS score2.1 LOW
EPSS probability0.86%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2001-03-26
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

When using the LD_PRELOAD environmental variable in SUID or SGID applications, glibc does not verify that preloaded libraries in /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID, which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a library from /lib or /usr/lib.

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