Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:26:09 -0600
From: Linux Mandrake Security Team security@LINUX-MANDRAKE.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: MDKSA-2000:045 – glibc update
Linux-Mandrake Security Update Advisory
Package name: glibc Date: September 6th, 2000 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2000:045 Affected versions: 7.0, 7.1
Problem Description:
A bug was discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to
obtain root privileges. The dynamic loader, ld.so, is responsible
for making shared libraries available within a program at run-time.
Normally, a user is allowed to load additional shared libraries
when executing a program; they can be specified with environment
variables such as LD_PRELOAD. Because this is not acceptable for
applications that are setuid root, ld.so normally removes these
environment variables for setuid root programs. The discovered bug
causes these environment variables to not be removed under certain
circumstances. While setuid programs themselves are not vulnerable,
external programs they execute can be affected by this problem.
A number of additional bugs have been found in the glibc locale
and internationaliztion security checks. In internationalized
programs, users are permitted to select a locale or choose message
catalogues using environment variables such as LANG or LC_*. The
content of these variables is then used as part of the pathname
used to search message catalogues or locale files. Under normal
circumstances, if these variables contained the “/” character, a
program could load the internationalization files from arbitrary
directories. This is not acceptable for setuid programs, which is
the reason glibc does not allow certain settings of these variables
if the program is setuid or setgid. However, some of these checks
were done in inapporpriate places, contained bugs, or were missing
entirely. It is highly probable that some of these bugs can be used
for local root exploits.
Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates prior to
upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You
can do this by running the md5sum program on the downloaded package
by using “md5sum package.rpm”.
Linux-Mandrake 7.0:
05e57344e0141d4f5085f78155b58b66
7.0/RPMS/glibc-2.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpm
284ee4868af286469169a4a6605d3172
7.0/RPMS/glibc-devel-2.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpm
114c605878c338ed36aabe9b673cd4fd
7.0/RPMS/glibc-profile-2.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpm
1f263ca77795b93b54e0af5644149407
7.0/SRPMS/glibc-2.1.3-16mdk.src.rpm
Linux-Mandrake 7.1:
f34a2988c60b32baeef205c0a0586b8e
7.1/RPMS/glibc-2.1.3-17mdk.i586.rpm
28c96de9e746eb0c7b3bcc0c58728fd9
7.1/RPMS/glibc-devel-2.1.3-17mdk.i586.rpm
27805991e31882d827bb032453fd5f16
7.1/RPMS/glibc-profile-2.1.3-17mdk.i586.rpm
eec3d0d92b216e0a47bc4909b6fbdfaf
7.1/SRPMS/glibc-2.1.3-17mdk.src.rpm
To upgrade automatically, use « MandrakeUpdate
».
If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package
from one of our FTP server mirrors and uprade with “rpm -Uvh
package_name”.
You can download the updates directly from:
ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates
ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/updates
Or try one of the other mirrors listed at:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3.
Updated packages are available in the “updates/[ver]/RPMS/”
directory. For example, if you are looking for an updated RPM
package for Linux-Mandrake 7.1, look for it in “updates/7.1/RPMS/”.
Updated source RPMs are available as well, but you generally do not
need to download them.
Please be aware that sometimes it takes the mirrors a few hours
to update, so if you want an immediate upgrade, please use one of
the two above-listed mirrors.
You can view other security advisories for Linux-Mandrake
at:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3
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