| Name | CVE-2025-4802 |
| Description | Untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable vulnerability in the GNU C Library version 2.27 to 2.38 allows attacker controlled loading of dynamically shared library in statically compiled setuid binaries that call dlopen (including internal dlopen calls after setlocale or calls to NSS functions such as getaddrinfo). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| glibc (PTS) | bullseye | 2.31-13+deb11u11 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2.31-13+deb11u12 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2.36-9+deb12u10 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 2.36-9+deb12u7 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 2.41-7 | fixed |
| sid | 2.41-8 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| glibc | source | (unstable) | 2.39-4 | | | |
Notes
Introduced with: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=10e93d968716ab82931d593bada121c17c0a4b93 (glibc-2.27)
Fixed by: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=5451fa962cd0a90a0e2ec1d8910a559ace02bba0 (glibc-2.39)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2