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Gentoo glibc Unprivileged Debugging Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA12306
Release Date: 2004-08-19
Last Update: 2005-02-15
Popularity: 8,565 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A weakness has been reported in glibc, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of certain system information.

The problem is that glibc allows the use of LD_DEBUG on SUID binaries, which can exploited to do unprivileged debugging.

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