CVE-2017-16997

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16997
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16997.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16997
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Published
2017-12-18T01:29:00.190Z
Modified
2026-05-15T12:03:03.732707209Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or ATSECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillinrpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the "./" directory. NOTE: this configuration of RPATH/RUNPATH for a privileged program is apparently very uncommon; most likely, no such program is shipped with any common Linux distribution.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages