Wednesday, October 27, 2010

GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Users of GNU C Library please be advised of multiple vulnerabilities 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
USN-1009-1: [USN-1009-1] GNU C Library vulnerabilities
Details follow:



Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple flaws in the GNU C Library's handling

of the LD_AUDIT environment variable when running a privileged binary. A

local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3847,

CVE-2010-3856)Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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