The root account's library search path must be the system default and must contain only absolute paths.

From SOLARIS 10 SPARC SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

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Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-26355r1_rule The root account's library search path must be the system default and must contain only absolute paths.

Vulnerability 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

Verify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is empty or not defined for the root user. # echo $LD_LIBRARY_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.

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