SuSE 11.1 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 4572)

This update fixes the following security issues found in glibc : - Specially crafted input to the fnmatch function could cause an integer overflow. CVE-2011-1071 - The output of the 'locale' command was not properly quoted. CVE-2011-1095 - Unprivileged users could read the NIS shadow database...

RHEL 6 : glibc (RHSA-2011:1526)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1526 advisory. The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the...

glibc: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

The addmntent function in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier does not report an error status for failed attempts to write to the /etc/mtab file, which makes it easier for local users to trigger corruption of this file, as demonstrated by writes from a process with a small...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which giv...

[ MDVSA-2011:178 ] glibc

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2011:178 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : glibc Date : November 25, 2011 Affected: 2010.1, Enterprise Server 5.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and fixed in glibc: Multipl...

glibc multiple security vulnerabilities

Privilege escalation via shared libraries, fnmatch buffer overflow, DoS conditions, crypt blowfish weak ecnryption implementation...

Mandriva Update for glibc MDVSA-2011:178 (glibc)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDVSA-2011:178)

Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and fixed in glibc : Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in elf/dl-object.c in certain modified versions of the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6, including glibc-2.5-49.el55.6 and glibc-2.12-1.7.el60.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, allow local use...

glibc LD_AUDIT Privilege Escalation

!/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file descriptor and using fexecve to easily win a race with...

glibc - LD_AUDIT Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation

glibc - LDAUDIT Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation !/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file...

glibc - 'LD_AUDIT' Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation

!/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file descriptor and using fexecve to easily win a race with...

glibc LD_AUDIT arbitrary DSO load Privilege Escalation

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits !/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file...

Fedora 16 : java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-60.1.10.4.fc16 (2011-15020) (BEAST)

Update to latest upstream bugfix release - Security fixes - S7000600, CVE-2011-3547: InputStream skip information leak - S7019773, CVE-2011-3548: mutable static AWTKeyStroke.ctor - S7023640, CVE-2011-3551: Java2D TransformHelper integer overflow - S7032417, CVE-2011-3552: excessive default UDP...

VMSA-2011-0012 : VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third-party libraries and ESX Service Console

a. ESX third-party update for Service Console kernel This update takes the console OS kernel package to kernel-2.6.18-238.9.1 which resolves multiple security issues. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project cve.mitre.org has assigned the names CVE-2010-1083, CVE-2010-2492, CVE-2010-2798,...

VMSA-2011-0012:VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console

VMSA-2011-0012.3 VMware ESX third party updates for Service Console packages glibc and dhcp VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2011-0012.3 VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware ESX third party updates for Service Console packages glibc and dhcp VMware Security...

SuSE Update for glibc,pam-modules,libxcrypt,pwdutils SUSE-SA:2011:035

Check for the Version of glibc,pam-modules,libxcrypt,pwdutils OpenVAS Vulnerability Test SuSE Update for glibc,pam-modules,libxcrypt,pwdutils SUSE-SA:2011:035 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free softwar...

SuSE9 Security Update : glibc suite (YOU Patch Number 12813)

The implementation of the blowfish based password hashing method had a bug affecting passwords that contain 8bit characters e.g. umlauts. Affected passwords are potentially faster to crack via brute-force methods. CVE-2011-2483 SUSE's crypt implementation supports the blowfish password hashing...

CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2011:0412 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2010:0793 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2011:0412 centos5 i386

Check for the Version of glibc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2011:0412 centos5 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...