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Gentoo glibc Unprivileged Debugging Weakness
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12306
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Release Date:
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2004-08-19
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Last Update:
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2005-02-15
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Popularity:
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8,831 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of system information
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Gentoo Linux
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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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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