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Secunia Security Advisory 25864

Secunia Security Advisory 25864
Posted Jul 6, 2007
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for glibc. This fixes a potential vulnerability, which may be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

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Secunia Security Advisory 25864

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for glibc

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25864

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25864/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for glibc. This fixes a potential
vulnerability, which may be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges.

The problem is caused due to an integer overflow within the dynamic
loader when processing the hardware capabilities mask.

Note: Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of
arbitrary code with escalated privileges, but has not been proven.

SOLUTION:
All sys-libs/glibc users should update to "sys-libs/glibc-2.5-r4" or
later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

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Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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