CVE-2001-0169 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in glibc, affecting Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, Trustix, and TurboLinux distributions. When SUID/SGID applications utilize the LD_PRELOAD environmental variable, glibc fails to verify that preloaded libraries from /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID. This oversight allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a malicious library from /lib or /usr/lib. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating low attack complexity and local access, with a potential impact of partial integrity loss. While not on the CISA KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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