[PATCH] CVE-2017-1000366: Ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH for AT_SECURE=1 programs [BZ #21624]
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Jun 19 15:38:00 GMT 2017
LD_LIBRARY_PATH can only be used to reorder system search paths, which
is not useful functionality.
This makes an exploitable unbounded alloca in _dl_init_paths unreachable
for AT_SECURE=1 programs.
2017-06-19 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
[BZ #21624]
CVE-2017-1000366
* elf/rtld.c (process_envvars): Ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH for
__libc_enable_secure.
diff --git a/elf/rtld.c b/elf/rtld.c
index 2446a87..2269dbe 100644
--- a/elf/rtld.c
+++ b/elf/rtld.c
@@ -2422,7 +2422,8 @@ process_envvars (enum mode *modep)
case 12:
/* The library search path. */
- if (memcmp (envline, "LIBRARY_PATH", 12) == 0)
+ if (!__libc_enable_secure
+ && memcmp (envline, "LIBRARY_PATH", 12) == 0)
{
library_path = &envline[13];
break;
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