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HistoryOct 22, 2010 - 12:00 a.m.

glibc - local privilege escalation

2010-10-2200:00:00
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7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Ben Hawkes and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the dynamic loader in GNU
libc allows local users to gain root privileges using a crafted
LD_AUDIT environment variable.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7-18lenny6.

For the upcoming stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been
fixed in version 2.11.2-6+squeeze1 of the eglibc package.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your glibc packages.

7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C