{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-3856 exists.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2010-3856 is a high-severity vulnerability in Gnu Glibc, published on 7 Jan 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2010-3856 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2010-3856 is a high-severity vulnerability in Gnu Glibc, published on 7 Jan 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-3856 exists.\n\nAffected product: Gnu Glibc. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-3856/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-3856/index.md)","id":"CVE-2010-3856","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-3856/index.md","name":"CVE-2010-3856","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3856","GHSA-87g4-5jq4-wvr2","RHSA-2010:0793"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNU C Library","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can gain privileges by exploiting improper LD_AUDIT restrictions in the GNU C Library via unsafe dynamic shared 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