SB2019111925 - Information disclosure in GNU Glibc
Published: November 19, 2019 Updated: July 17, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019111925
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19126)
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to gain access to sensitive information.
On the x86-64 architecture, the GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.31 fails to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program execution after a security transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid program.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4FQ5LC6JOYSOYFPRUZ4S45KL6IP3RPPZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZFJ5E7NWOL6ROE5QVICHKIOUGCPFJVUH/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25204
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/