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authorMarcin Koƛcielnicki <mwk@0x04.net>2019-11-21 00:20:15 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-11-21 12:56:44 +0100
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rtld: Check __libc_enable_secure before honoring LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC (CVE-2019-19126) [BZ #25204]
The problem was introduced in glibc 2.23, in commit
b9eb92ab05204df772eb4929eccd018637c9f3e9
("Add Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC to map executable pages with MAP_32BIT").
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@@ -86,7 +86,11 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
 Security related changes:
 
-  [Add security related changes here]
+  CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
+  environment variable during program execution after a security
+  transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
+  addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
+  program.  Reported by Marcin Koƛcielnicki.
 
 The following bugs are resolved with this release: