Gentoo: GLSA-200408-16 Low Severity: Glibc Information Leak
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August 17, 2004
glibc contains an information leak vulnerability allowing the debugging of SUID binaries.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200408-16
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Low
Title: glibc: Information leak with LD_DEBUG
Date: August 16, 2004
Bugs: #59526
ID: 200408-16
Synopsis
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glibc contains an information leak vulnerability allowing the debugging
of SUID binaries.
Background
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The GNU C library defines various Unix-like "system calls" and other
basic facilities needed for a standard POSIX-like application to
operate.
Affected packages
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1 sys-libs/glibc <= 2.3.2-r10 >= 2.3.2-r11
2 sys-libs/glibc <= 2.3.3.20040420 >= 2.3.3.20040420-r1
3 sys-libs/glibc <= 2.3.3.20040...
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