CVE-2005-2072

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-06-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The runtime linker (ld.so) in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 trusts the LD_AUDIT environment variable in setuid or setgid programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by (1) modifying LD_AUDIT to reference malicious code and possibly (2) using a long value for LD_AUDIT.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
Sunos: 5.8

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034730.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034731.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034738.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/15841
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014537
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101794-1
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=3497
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14074
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0908
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034730.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034731.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034738.html

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