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Ubuntu 8.10: USN-721-1 Critical Fglrx Installer Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical security notice regarding the fglrx-installer on Ubuntu identifies a vulnerability that enables remote code execution through improperly managed environment variables.
Marko Lindqvist discovered that the fglrx installer created an unsafeLD_LIBRARY_PATH on 64bit systems

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security advisory critical code execution remote code execution ubuntu fglrx-installer unsafe environment

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fglrx-installer vulnerability

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security advisory critical code execution remote code execution ubuntu fglrx-installer unsafe environment

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