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Secunia Advisory SA10209

Red Hat update for glibc

Secunia Advisory

SA10209

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Release Date

2003-11-13

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

DoS

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Operating System

Red Hat Linux 9

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2003-0859 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Red Hat has issued updated packages for glibc. These fix a vulnerability allowing malicious users to spoof message sent to the kernel netlink interface.

This affects the getifaddrs function in glibc and could potentially lead to a Denial of Service against applications using this function.

Other bugs are also fixed in this update.

Solution
Updated packages are available:
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Updated glibc packages provide security and bug fixes
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-325.html

Deep Links
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Red Hat update for glibc

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