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Immunix 6.2 OS Security update for glibc
From: Greg KH <greg () WIREX COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:15:13 -0800
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Immunix OS Security Advisory Packages updated: glibc Effected products: Immunix OS 6.2 Bugs Fixed: immunix/1322 Date: January 19, 2001 Advisory ID: IMNX-2000-62-043-01 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg () wirex com> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: There is a bug in the current version of the GNU C Library (glibc) that is shipped with Immunix Linux 6.2. This bug can allow unprivileged users to corrupt files that would normally be restricted to them (like /etc/shadow) by allowing them to preload libraries that were not specified by the system administrator. Packages have been created and released for Immunix 6.2 to fix this problem. Package names and locations: Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 6.2 are available at: http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/glibc-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.i386.rpm http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/glibc-devel-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.i386.rpm http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/glibc-profile-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.i386.rpm http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/nscd-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.i386.rpm Source package for Immunix 6.2 is available at: http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/SRPMS/glibc-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.src.rpm md5sums of the packages: 73632f0b2da29832b539cd922cf1f726 glibc-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.i386.rpm e7233177632603a14115adba6d9592eb glibc-devel-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.i386.rpm 46474424c51ef9b278dfd97017b33b69 glibc-profile-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.i386.rpm 2e7fa539e65c3d75456ab9fb0cc37270 nscd-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.i386.rpm bbae74987f16567fcfe6481efdf92435 glibc-2.1.3-22_StackGuard_1.src.rpm Online version of all Immunix 6.2 updates and advisories: http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/
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