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Ubuntu 1009-1 Critical: Glibc Local Privilege Escalation Threat

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
An urgent security alert for Ubuntu addressing libglc weaknesses to mitigate risks of local privilege escalation attacks.
Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple flaws in the GNU C Library's handlingof the LD_AUDIT environment variable when running a privileged binary

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security advisory local privilege escalation Ubuntu critical threat glibc GNU C Library

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glibc, eglibc vulnerabilities

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security advisory local privilege escalation Ubuntu critical threat glibc GNU C Library

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