CVE-2000-0824

Public Date:
1999-09-17
Bugzilla:
1616515: CVE-2000-0824 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The unsetenv function in glibc 2.1.1 does not properly unset an environmental variable if the variable is provided twice to a program, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary commands in setuid programs by specifying their own duplicate environmental variables such as LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Find out more about CVE-2000-0824 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Linux 6.0 RHSA-2000:057 2000-09-01
Red Hat Linux 5.1 RHSA-2000:057 2000-09-01
Red Hat Linux 6.1 RHSA-2000:057 2000-09-01
Red Hat Linux 6.2 RHSA-2000:057 2000-09-01
Red Hat Linux 5.0 RHSA-2000:057 2000-09-01
Red Hat Linux 5.2 RHSA-2000:057 2000-09-01

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