Denial Of Service (DoS)

glibc is vulnerable to privilege escalation. It was discovered that the glibc dynamic linker/loader did not handle the $ORIGIN dynamic string token set in the LDAUDIT environment variable securely. A local attacker with write access to a file system containing setuid or setgid binaries could use...

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. ...

CentOS 5 : glibc (CESA-2010:0793)

Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security update

Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...