Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-16997 - Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the "./" directory. NOTE: this configuration of RPATH/RUNPATH for a privileged program is apparently very uncommon; most likely, no such program is shipped with any common Linux distribution.
Vulnerable Configurations
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| Application | 7 | |
| OS | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths This attack loads a malicious resource into a program's standard path used to bootstrap and/or provide contextual information for a program like a path variable or classpath. J2EE applications and other component based applications that are built from multiple binaries can have very long list of dependencies to execute. If one of these libraries and/or references is controllable by the attacker then application controls can be circumvented by the attacker. A standard UNIX path looks similar to this If the attacker modifies the path variable to point to a locale that includes malicious resources then the user unwittingly can execute commands on the attackers' behalf: This is a form of usurping control of the program and the attack can be done on the classpath, database resources, or any other resources built from compound parts. At runtime detection and blocking of this attack is nearly impossible, because the configuration allows execution.
Nessus
NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1257.NASL description According to the version of the glibc packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2019-04-04 plugin id 123725 published 2019-04-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123725 title EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : glibc (EulerOS-SA-2019-1257) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-7714B514E2.NASL description This update addresses two security vulnerabilities : - CVE-2017-16997: Check for empty tokens before dynamic string token expansion in the dynamic linker, so that pre-existing privileged programs with `$ORIGIN` rpaths/runpaths do not cause the dynamic linker to search the current directory, potentially leading to privilege escalation. (RHBZ#1526866). - CVE-2018-1000001: `getcwd` would sometimes return a non-absolute path, confusing the `realpath` function, leading to privilege escalation in conjunction with user namespaces. (RHBZ#1533837) In addition, this update changes the thread stack size accounting to provide additional stack space compared to previous glibc versions. For some applications (`nptd` in particular), the `PTHREAD_STACK_MIN` stack size was too small on x86-64 machines with AVX-512 support (RHBZ#1527887). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-01-24 plugin id 106279 published 2018-01-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106279 title Fedora 27 : glibc (2018-7714b514e2) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0011-A_GLIBC.NASL description An update of the glibc package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121907 published 2019-02-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121907 title Photon OS 2.0: Glibc PHSA-2018-2.0-0011-(a) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0011-A.NASL description An update of {'ruby', 'glibc'} packages of Photon OS has been released. last seen 2019-02-21 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 111281 published 2018-07-24 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111281 title Photon OS 2.0 : ruby / glibc (PhotonOS-PHSA-2018-2.0-0011-(a)) (deprecated) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-1_0-0098-A_GLIBC.NASL description An update of the glibc package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121798 published 2019-02-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121798 title Photon OS 1.0: Glibc PHSA-2018-1.0-0098-(a) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-30.NASL description This update for glibc fixes the following issues : - A privilege escalation bug in the realpath() function has been fixed. [CVE-2018-1000001, bsc#1074293] - A memory leak and a buffer overflow in the dynamic ELF loader has been fixed. [CVE-2017-1000408, CVE-2017-1000409, bsc#1071319] - An issue in the code handling RPATHs was fixed that could have been exploited by an attacker to execute code loaded from arbitrary libraries. [CVE-2017-16997, bsc#1073231] - A potential crash caused by a use-after-free bug in pthread_create() has been fixed. [bsc#1053188] - A bug that prevented users to build shared objects which use the optimized libmvec.so API has been fixed. [bsc#1070905] - A memory leak in the glob() function has been fixed. [CVE-2017-15670, CVE-2017-15671, CVE-2017-15804, bsc#1064569, bsc#1064580, bsc#1064583] - A bug that would lose the syscall error code value in case of crashes has been fixed. [bsc#1063675] This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-01-16 plugin id 106059 published 2018-01-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106059 title openSUSE Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-2018-30) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-1_0-0098-A.NASL description An update of 'ruby', 'glibc' packages of Photon OS has been released. last seen 2019-02-08 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 111910 published 2018-08-17 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111910 title Photon OS 1.0: Glibc / Ruby PHSA-2018-1.0-0098-(a) (deprecated) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-8E27AD96ED.NASL description This update addresses two security vulnerabilities : - CVE-2017-15670, CVE-2017-15671, CVE-2017-15804: Various vulnerabilities could lead to memory corruption in the `glob` and `glob64` function. (RHBZ#1505298, RHBZ##1504807) - CVE-2017-16997: Check for empty tokens before dynamic string token expansion in the dynamic linker, so that pre-existing privileged programs with `$ORIGIN` rpaths/runpaths do not cause the dynamic linker to search the current directory, potentially leading to privilege escalation. (RHBZ#1526866). - CVE-2018-1000001: `getcwd` would sometimes return a non-absolute path, confusing the `realpath` function, leading to privilege escalation in conjunction with user namespaces. (RHBZ#1533837) In addition, this update replaces the dynamic linker trampoline on x86-64 with a version which uses the `XSAVE` instruction if it is available. This improves compatibility with future hardware and compilers which do not follow the x86-64 ABI. This update also adjusts the thread stack size accounting to provide additional stack space compared to previous glibc versions (to avoid introducing RHBZ#1527887). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-01-24 plugin id 106281 published 2018-01-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106281 title Fedora 26 : glibc (2018-8e27ad96ed) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201804-02.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201804-02 (glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in glibc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, cause a Denial of Service condition, or have other unspecified impacts. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 108822 published 2018-04-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108822 title GLSA-201804-02 : glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1371.NASL description According to the version of the glibc packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2019-05-10 plugin id 124749 published 2019-05-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124749 title EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.4 : glibc (EulerOS-SA-2019-1371) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1667.NASL description According to the versions of the glibc packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2019-06-27 plugin id 126294 published 2019-06-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/126294 title EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : glibc (EulerOS-SA-2019-1667) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2018-3092.NASL description An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly. Security Fix(es) : * glibc: Incorrect handling of RPATH in elf/dl-load.c can be used to execute code loaded from arbitrary libraries (CVE-2017-16997) * glibc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign in memalign functions (CVE-2018-6485) * glibc: Integer overflow in stdlib/canonicalize.c on 32-bit architectures leading to stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2018-11236) * glibc: Buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper (CVE-2018-11237) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes : For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118992 published 2018-11-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118992 title CentOS 7 : glibc (CESA-2018:3092) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1386.NASL description According to the versions of the glibc packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - stdlib/canonicalize.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.27 and earlier, when processing very long pathname arguments to the realpath function, could encounter an integer overflow on 32-bit architectures, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow and, potentially, arbitrary code execution.(CVE-2018-11236) - An AVX-512-optimized implementation of the mempcpy function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.27 and earlier may write data beyond the target buffer, leading to a buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper.(CVE-2018-11237) - elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 124889 published 2019-05-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124889 title EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : glibc (EulerOS-SA-2019-1386) NASL family NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks NASL id NEWSTART_CGSL_NS-SA-2019-0040_GLIBC.NASL description The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has glibc packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - An integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.26 and earlier could cause these functions to return a pointer to a heap area that is too small, potentially leading to heap corruption. (CVE-2018-6485) - elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the ./ directory. NOTE: this configuration of RPATH/RUNPATH for a privileged program is apparently very uncommon; most likely, no such program is shipped with any common Linux distribution. (CVE-2017-16997) - A buffer overflow has been discovered in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) in the __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper function when particular conditions are met. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code. (CVE-2018-11237) - stdlib/canonicalize.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.27 and earlier, when processing very long pathname arguments to the realpath function, could encounter an integer overflow on 32-bit architectures, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow and, potentially, arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2018-11236) Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 127214 published 2019-08-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/127214 title NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : glibc Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0040) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-0074-1.NASL description This update for glibc fixes the following issues : - A privilege escalation bug in the realpath() function has been fixed. [CVE-2018-1000001, bsc#1074293] - A memory leak and a buffer overflow in the dynamic ELF loader has been fixed. [CVE-2017-1000408, CVE-2017-1000409, bsc#1071319] - An issue in the code handling RPATHs was fixed that could have been exploited by an attacker to execute code loaded from arbitrary libraries. [CVE-2017-16997, bsc#1073231] - A potential crash caused by a use-after-free bug in pthread_create() has been fixed. [bsc#1053188] - A bug that prevented users to build shared objects which use the optimized libmvec.so API has been fixed. [bsc#1070905] - A memory leak in the glob() function has been fixed. [CVE-2017-15670, CVE-2017-15671, CVE-2017-15804, bsc#1064569, bsc#1064580, bsc#1064583] - A bug that would lose the syscall error code value in case of crashes has been fixed. [bsc#1063675] Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 106044 published 2018-01-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106044 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2018:0074-1) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2018-3092.NASL description An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly. Security Fix(es) : * glibc: Incorrect handling of RPATH in elf/dl-load.c can be used to execute code loaded from arbitrary libraries (CVE-2017-16997) * glibc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign in memalign functions (CVE-2018-6485) * glibc: Integer overflow in stdlib/canonicalize.c on 32-bit architectures leading to stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2018-11236) * glibc: Buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper (CVE-2018-11237) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes : For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118527 published 2018-10-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118527 title RHEL 7 : glibc (RHSA-2018:3092) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3534-1.NASL description It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle all of the possible return values from the kernel getcwd(2) syscall. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code in setuid programs and gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2018-1000001) A memory leak was discovered in the _dl_init_paths() function in the GNU C library dynamic loader. A local attacker could potentially exploit this with a specially crafted value in the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable, in combination with CVE-2017-1000409 and another vulnerability on a system with hardlink protections disabled, in order to gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2017-1000408) A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the _dl_init_paths() function in the GNU C library dynamic loader. A local attacker could potentially exploit this with a specially crafted value in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, in combination with CVE-2017-1000408 and another vulnerability on a system with hardlink protections disabled, in order to gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2017-1000409) An off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C library glob() implementation. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a maliciously crafted pattern. (CVE-2017-15670) A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator in the GNU C library glob() implementation. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a maliciously crafted pattern. (CVE-2017-15804) It was discovered that the GNU C library dynamic loader mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) programs. A local attacker could potentially exploit this by providing a specially crafted library in the current working directory in order to gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2017-16997) It was discovered that the GNU C library malloc() implementation could return a memory block that is too small if an attempt is made to allocate an object whose size is close to SIZE_MAX, resulting in a heap-based overflow. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2017-17426). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 106134 published 2018-01-18 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106134 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.10 : eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities (USN-3534-1) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20181030_GLIBC_ON_SL7_X.NASL description Security Fix(es) : - glibc: Incorrect handling of RPATH in elf/dl-load.c can be used to execute code loaded from arbitrary libraries (CVE-2017-16997) - glibc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign in memalign functions (CVE-2018-6485) - glibc: Integer overflow in stdlib/canonicalize.c on 32-bit architectures leading to stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2018-11236) - glibc: Buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper (CVE-2018-11237) last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2018-11-27 plugin id 119182 published 2018-11-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119182 title Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL7.x x86_64 (20181030) NASL family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ALA_ALAS-2018-1109.NASL description A buffer overflow has been discovered in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) in the __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper function when particular conditions are met. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.(CVE-2018-11237) elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the last seen 2020-06-10 modified 2018-12-07 plugin id 119468 published 2018-12-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119468 title Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2018-1109)
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