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Debian: DSA-2976-1 Critical eglibc Update For OpenSSH Circumvention

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2014
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Ubuntu DSA-3078-2 elaborates on the libc9 security patch tackling filesystem path traversal vulnerabilities.
Stephane Chazelas discovered that the GNU C library, glibc, processed ".." path segments in locale-related environment variables, possibly allowing attackers to circumvent intended...

Summary

Stephane Chazelas discovered that the GNU C library, glibc, processed
".." path segments in locale-related environment variables, possibly
allowing attackers to circumvent intended restrictions, such as
ForceCommand in OpenSSH, assuming that they can supply crafted locale
settings.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.13-38+deb7u3.

This update also includes changes previously scheduled for the next
wheezy point release as version 2.13-38+deb7u2. See the Debian
changelog for details.

We recommend that you upgrade your eglibc packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: eglibc
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0475

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