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Debian 2.1: Security Advisory For glibc Local Exploit And Critical Fix

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Calendar Grey September 4, 2000
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Critical glibc vulnerabilities allow unauthorized code execution in setuid applications; patches for Debian 2.1 now available.

Recently two problems have been found in the glibc suite, which could beused to trick setuid applications to run arbitrary code.

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Summary


An earlier advisory listed the updates for Debian 2.2/potato. This
advisory contains updates for Debian 2.1/slink. For information
about the found problems please see the previous advisory which is
available online at Debian -- Security Information -- glibc.

UPDATE: the packages mentioned in the previous problem had a bug
that prevented some patches from being applied. This has been
fixed in version 2.0.7.19981211-6.3 .

wget url
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dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
Fixed packages are available for the Intel ia32 architecture.

Source archives:

MD5 checksum: 4244c7f623db187881322b0949cc483a

MD5 checksum: 37eb9dc5ecd875e417aaba9ca6e1c25f

MD5 checksum: 91724410e14a2b2b719dc44cf95067f1

Intel ia32 architecture:

MD5 checksum: 23f5aace9db7104163b2422d600d8869

MD5 checksum: 97deb2bb3eb914174a9bfecf3c3b5f69

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