Wednesday, October 27, 2010

glibc: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Users of glibc please be advised of a Privilege Escalation vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
MDVSA-2010:212: [MDVSA-2010:212] glibc - Privilege Escalation Issue
Problem Description:



A vulnerability in the GNU C library (glibc) was discovered which

could escalate the privilegies for local users (CVE-2010-3856).



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