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CVE-2011-0536

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-04-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in elf/dl-object.c in certain modified versions of the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6), including glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6 and glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object (DSO) in a subdirectory of the current working directory during execution of a (1) setuid or (2) setgid program that has $ORIGIN in (a) RPATH or (b) RUNPATH within the program itself or a referenced library. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-3847.

Affected products

• GNU C Library (glibc): 2.5-49.el5_5.6, 2.12-1.7.el6_0.3
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: all versions

References

• http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2011/msg00005.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/01/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43830
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43989
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1025289
• http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=96611391ad8823ba58405325d78cefeae5cdf699
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0412.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0413.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

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