Vulnerabilities > CVE-2000-0959 - Unspecified vulnerability in GNU Glibc 2.1.3.10
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
glibc2 does not properly clear the LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT and LD_DEBUG environmental variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.