Title

The root account's library search path must be the system default and must contain only absolute paths. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The library search path environment variable(s) contain a list of directories for the dynamic linker to search to find libraries. If this path includes the current working directory or other relative paths, libraries in these directories may be loaded instead of system libraries. This variable is formatted as a colon-separated list of directories. If there is an empty entry, such as a leading or trailing colon or two consecutive colons, this is interpreted as the current working directory. Entries starting with a slash (/) are absolute paths.

Check Content

Check that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and SHLIB_PATH variables are empty or not defined for the root user. Example: # echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH # echo $SHLIB_PATH If a path list is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Edit the root user initialization files and remove any definition of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and SHLIB_PATH.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-38307r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-22310

Group Title: GEN000945

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