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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2328-1 Critical eglibc Access Concern

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2014
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Important notice regarding the GNU C Library vulnerability for Ubuntu LTS users. Protect your machine by applying necessary updates.
Certain applications could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Summary

Certain applications could be made to crash or run programs as an

administrator.

Software Description:

- eglibc: GNU C Library

Details:

Tavis Ormandy and John Haxby discovered that the GNU C Library contained an

off-by-one error when performing transliteration module loading. A local

attacker could exploit this to gain administrative privileges.

(CVE-2014-5119)

USN-2306-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the security update for CVE-2014-0475 caused a

regression with localplt on PowerPC. This update fixes the problem. We

apologize for the inconvenience.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical access issue Ubuntu eglibc

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libc6                           2.19-0ubuntu6.3

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libc6                           2.15-0ubuntu10.7

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libc6                           2.11.1-0ubuntu7.16

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2328-1

CVE-2014-5119

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=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2328-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical access issue Ubuntu eglibc

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/2.19-0ubuntu6.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/2.15-0ubuntu10.7
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/2.11.1-0ubuntu7.16

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