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Debian: DSA-5514-1 Critical: Glibc Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2023
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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4514-1 discusses the OpenSSL vulnerability, helping mitigate potential unauthorized access.
The Qualys Research Labs discovered a buffer overflow in the dynamic loader's processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable
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Summary

Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at
https://https://www.qualys.com/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911/looney-tunables-local-privilege-escalation-glibc-ld-so.txt

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.31-13+deb11u7.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.36-9+deb12u3. This update includes fixes for CVE-2023-4527 and
CVE-2023-4806 originally planned for the upcoming bookworm point
release.

We recommend that you upgrade your glibc packages.

For the detailed security status of glibc please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/glibc

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



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Package: glibc
CVE ID: CVE-2023-4911

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