[PATCH] ldd: never run file directly

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Aug 16 14:47:00 GMT 2017


On Aug 16 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Thanks.  What about this NEWS entry for it?
>
> +  CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
> +  examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
> +  dynamic linker.  (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
> +  vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
> +  script.)

Looks ok.

Andreas.

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