CVE-2007-3508

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

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 products

gentoo Glibc: through 2.5

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844
http://osvdb.org/37901
http://secunia.com/advisories/25864
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24758
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334
http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-07/msg00001.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2418
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35240
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844
http://osvdb.org/37901

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