glibc $ORIGIN Expansion Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module attempts to gain root privileges on Linux systems by abusing a vulnerability in the GNU C Library glibc dynamic linker. glibc ld.so in versions before 2.11.3, and 2.12.x before 2.12.2 does not properly restrict use of the LDAUDIT environment variable when loading setuid...

Debian DSA-2122-1 : glibc - missing input sanitization

Ben Hawkes and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the dynamic loader in GNU libc allows local users to gain root privileges using a crafted LDAUDIT environment variable. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debi...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2122-1] New glibc packages fix local privilege escalation

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2122-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer October 22, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...