glibc, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0787

The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple
programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the
standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, a Linux system cannot
function properly.

It was discovered that the glibc dynamic linker/loader did not handle the
$ORIGIN dynamic string token set in the LD_AUDIT environment variable
securely. A local attacker with write access to a file system containing
setuid or setgid binaries could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.
(CVE-2010-3847)

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy for reporting this issue.

All users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct this issue.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-October/079261.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-October/079262.html

Affected packages:
glibc
glibc-common
glibc-devel
glibc-headers
glibc-utils
nscd

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0787