Scientific Linux 5.x: CVE-2010-3847 Important Glibc Security Update

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:35:16 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: glibc on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: glibc security update
Issue date:	2010-10-20
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-3847

It was discovered that the glibc dynamic linker/loader did not handle
the $ORIGIN dynamic string token set in the LD_AUDIT environment
variable securely. A local attacker with write access to a file system
containing setuid or setgid binaries could use this flaw to escalate
their privileges. (CVE-2010-3847)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6.src.rpm
 i386:
glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i386.rpm
glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i386.rpm
glibc-headers-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i386.rpm
glibc-utils-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i386.rpm
nscd-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i686.rpm
glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-common-2.5-49.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.5-49.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.5-49.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-utils-2.5-49.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm
nscd-2.5-49.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson