Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for glibc. This fixes some weaknesses and a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for glibc
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43830
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-04-07
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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for glibc. This fixes some weaknesses
and a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users
to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and gain escalated privileges and
by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA42215
SA43492
SA43976
1) The "addmntent()" function does not correctly handle newline
characters. This can be exploited to e.g. cause a DoS or gain
escalated privileges, but requires that an attacker can inject
newline characters into a mount entry (e.g. via vulnerable mount
helpers).
Note: This update includes a fix for a regression introduced due to
an earlier update not properly fixing CVE-2010-3847.
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2011:0412-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0412.html
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