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CVE-2000-0824

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2000-11-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The unsetenv function in glibc 2.1.1 does not properly unset an environmental variable if the variable is provided twice to a program, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary commands in setuid programs by specifying their own duplicate environmental variables such as LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Glibc

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References