glibc protection bypass

It may be possible to bypass some restriction because of incorrect .. seqence processing in locale related functions...

Serious vulnerability in glibc

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION A vulnerability exists in glibc versions up to version 2.1.3, ie. all released versions, allowing local users to get root access. Fix packages for most major Linux distributions have been released or will be released within a day or two. There's also a quick workaround describ...