glibc: New glibc packages fix local privilege escalation Vulnerability

Users of glibc please be advised of a New glibc packages fix local privilege escalation vulnerability that has been identified.

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DSA 2122-1: [DSA 2122-1] New glibc packages fix local privilege escalation

Ben Hawkes and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the dynamic loader in GNU libc allows local users to gain root privileges using a crafted LD_AUDIT environment variable. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-18lenny6. For the upcoming stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.11.2-6+squeeze1 of the eglibc package. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.Read more at www.criticalwatch.com

 

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