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CVE-2015-8777

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.6%

Medium (5.5) in gnu glibc. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 47% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-254
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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