CVE-2000-0959: GNU Glibc

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: version 2.1.3.10 only

Published 2000-12-19. Last modified 2026-09-23.