Privilege Escalation

glibc is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists as it was discovered that the glibc dynamic linker/loader did not perform sufficient safety checks when loading dynamic shared objects DSOs to provide callbacks for its auditing API during the execution of privileged programs. ...

The GNU C library dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in setuid library search path

The GNU C library dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in setuid library search path ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gruezi, This is CVE-2010-3847. The dynamic linker or dynamic loader is responsible for the runtime linking of dynamically linked programs...