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CVE-2007-3508

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2007-07-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution

Affected Platforms

Gentoo Glibc

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References