CVE-2007-3508
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (40th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-3492)
- Published
- July 3, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-3492 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gentoo / glibc
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844
- http://osvdb.org/37901
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25864(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml
- http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24758
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334
- http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-07/msg00001.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2418(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35240
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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