CVE-2010-3847: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 9.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

elf/dl-load.c in ld.so in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.2, and 2.12.x through 2.12.1, does not properly handle a value of $ORIGIN for the LD_AUDIT environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object (DSO) located in an arbitrary directory.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: up to and including 2.11.2; version 1.00 only; version 1.01 only; version 1.02 only; version 1.03 only; version 1.04 only; …

Published 2011-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.