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Gentoo: GLSA-200408-16 Low Severity: Glibc Information Leak

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Calendar Grey August 17, 2004
Scroller Gentoo
This notice highlights a minor risk regarding information exposure in glibc affecting SUID executables. Users are urged to update promptly.
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 ======= glibc contains an information leak vulnerability allowing the debugging of SUID binaries.
Background ========= 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 ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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