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CVE-2017-1000409

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A buffer overflow in glibc 2.5 (released on September 29, 2006) and can be triggered through the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.

Affected products

• GNU C Library (glibc): 2.5

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/385
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43331/
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/385
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43331/

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