Debian DSA-103-1 : glibc - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been found in the globbing code for glibc. This is the code which is used to glob patterns for filenames and is commonly used in applications like shells and FTP servers. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

RHEL 2.1 : glibc (RHSA-2004:383)

Updated glibc packages that fix a security flaw in the resolver as well as dlclose handling are now available. The GNU libc packages known as glibc contain the standard C libraries used by applications. A security audit of the glibc packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 found a flaw in the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2003:107)

A bug was discovered in the getgrouplist function in glibc that can cause a buffer overflow if the size of the group list is too small to hold all the user's groups. This overflow can cause segementation faults in various user applications, some of which may lead to additional security problems...

RHEL 2.1 : glibc (RHSA-2003:022)

Updated glibc packages are available to fix a buffer overflow in the resolver. The GNU C library package, glibc, contains standard libraries used by multiple programs on the system. A read buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the glibc resolver code in versions of glibc up to and including...

RHEL 2.1 : glibc (RHSA-2003:090)

Updated glibc packages are available to fix an integer overflow in the XDR decoder. The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. Sun RPC is a remote procedure call framework which allows clients to invoke procedures in a server process over a...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security update

Updated glibc packages are available which fix a buffer overflow in the XDR decoder and two vulnerabilities in the resolver functions. updated 8 aug 2002 Updated packages have been made available, as the original errata introduced a bug which could cause calloc to crash on 32-bit platforms when...

[SECURITY] glibc update for Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (update)

Package: glibc Vulnerability: local exploit Debian-specific: no Recently two problems have been found in the glibc suite, which could be used to trick setuid applications to run arbitrary code. An earlier advisory listed the updates for Debian 2.2/potato. This advisory contains updates for Debian...

[SECURITY] glibc update for Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman September 5, 2000 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package: glibc Vulnerability: local...

Security Update: ld.so unsetenv problem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Caldera Systems, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: ld.so unsetenv problem Advisory number: CSSA-2000-028.0 Issue date: 2000 August, 24 Cross reference: 1. Problem Description A bug has been discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to obtain supe...