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When enabled, any setuid program invoked with GLIBC_TUNABLES in the environment will be terminated immediately.  To invoke the setuid program, users will then have to unset or clear the GLIBC_TUNABLES envvar, e.g. `GLIBC_TUNABLES= sudo` . \n\nNote that these mitigation steps will need to be repeated if the system is rebooted.\n\n1)    Install required systemtap packages and dependencies as per - https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5441\n\n\n2)    Create the following systemtap script, and name it stap_block_suid_tunables.stp:\n    ~~~\nfunction has_tunable_string:long()\n{\n  name = \"GLIBC_TUNABLES\"\n\n  mm = @task(task_current())->mm;\n  if (mm)\n    {\n      env_start = @mm(mm)->env_start;\n      env_end = @mm(mm)->env_end;\n\n      if (env_start != 0 && env_end != 0)\n        while (env_end > env_start)\n          {\n            cur = user_string(env_start, \"\");\n            env_name = tokenize(cur, \"=\");\n      \n            if (env_name == name && tokenize(\"\", \"\") != \"\")\n              return 1;\n            env_start += strlen (cur) + 1\n          }\n    }\n\n  return 0;\n}\n\nprobe process(\"/lib*/ld*.so*\").function(\"__tunables_init\")\n{\n  atsecure = 0;\n  /* Skip processing if we can't read __libc_enable_secure, e.g. core dump\n     handler (systemd-cgroups-agent and systemd-coredump).  */\n  try { atsecure = @var(\"__libc_enable_secure\"); }\n  catch { printk (4, sprintf (\"CVE-2023-4911: Skipped check: %s (%d)\", execname(), pid())); }\n  if (atsecure && has_tunable_string ())\n    raise (9);\n}\n~~~\n\n3) Load the systemtap module into the running kernel:\n    ~~~\n    stap -g -F -m stap_block_suid_tunables stap_block_suid_tunables.stp\n    ~~~\n\n4) Ensure the module is loaded:\n    ~~~\n     lsmod | grep -i stap_block_suid_tunables\nstap_block_suid_tunables     249856  0\n~~~\n\n5) Once the glibc package is updated to the version containing the fix, the systemtap generated kernel module can be removed by running:\n    ~~~\n    rmmod stap_block_suid_tunables\n    ~~~\n\nIf Secure Boot is enabled on a system, the SystemTap module must be signed. 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