Privilege Escalation

glibc is vulnerable to privilege escalation. It was discovered that the locale command did not produce properly escaped output as required by the POSIX specification. If an attacker were able to set the locale environment variables in the environment of a script that performed shell evaluation on...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL5.x,SL6.x i386/x86_64

The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, a Linux system cannot function properly. The fix for CVE-2010-3847 introduced a regression in the way th...

CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2011:0412 centos5 x86_64

Check for the Version of glibc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2011:0412 centos5 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it unde...

SuSE 10 Security Update : glibc (ZYPP Patch Number 7574)

This update contains the following fixes : - 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 - Don't search the current directory if $ORIGIN is in RPATH of libraries called b...

SuSE9 Security Update : glibc (YOU Patch Number 12775)

This update contains the following fixes : - 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 - Don't search the current directory if $ORIGIN is in RPATH of libraries called b...

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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : glibc (ZYPP Patch Number 7575)

The following bugs have been fixed : - 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 - Don't search the current directory if $ORIGIN is in RPATH of libraries called by setu...

CentOS 5 : glibc (CESA-2011:0412)

Updated glibc packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...