CVE-2017-1000408

glibc: Memory leak reachable via LD_HWCAP_MASK

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · December 11, 2017

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A memory leak in glibc 2.1.1 (released on May 24, 1999) can be reached and amplified through the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of glibc as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 after CVE-2017-1000366 fix:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-1000366

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption