Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in glibc 2.5 via LD_LIBRARY_PATH

CVE-2017-1000409 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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