CVE-2007-3508: Gentoo Glibc

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution

Affected products

• Gentoo Glibc: up to and including 2.5

Published 2007-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.