Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2000-0959 First vendor Publication 2000-12-19
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-10-10

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 1.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 1.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

glibc2 does not properly clear the LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT and LD_DEBUG environmental variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0959

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
1573 GNU libc (glibc2) LD_DEBUG Arbitrary File Overwrite

glibc2 does not properly clear the LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT and LD_DEBUG environmental variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1719
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/85028
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5299

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2021-05-04 12:01:12
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2018-08-14 12:01:30
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