Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8777
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable.
Published Date
January 20, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory