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Gentoo: GLSA-200707-04 Normal: Glibc Integer Overflow Threat Analysis

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Calendar Grey July 3, 2007
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Gentoo GLSA-200707-05 highlights a memory corruption vulnerability in OpenSSH, which may lead to privilege escalation and unauthorized command execution.
An integer overflow in the dynamic loader, ld.so, could result in the execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GNU C Library: Integer overflow Date: July 03, 2007 Bugs: #183844 ID: 200707-04

Synopsis ======= An integer overflow in the dynamic loader, ld.so, could result in the execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
Background ========= The GNU C library is the standard C library used by Gentoo Linux systems. It provides programs with basic facilities and interfaces to system calls. ld.so is the dynamic linker which prepares dynamically linked programs for execution by resolving runtime dependencies and related functions.
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