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CVE-2017-16997 Detail

Current Description

elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the "./" directory. NOTE: this configuration of RPATH/RUNPATH for a privileged program is apparently very uncommon; most likely, no such program is shipped with any common Linux distribution.

Source:  MITRE
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.8 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 1.8

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.3 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows unauthorized modification
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102228 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3092 Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/884615 Issue Tracking Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22625 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-12/msg00528.html Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory

Technical Details

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Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Configuration 2 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-16997
NVD Published Date:
12/17/2017
NVD Last Modified:
04/26/2019