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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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