Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4-1
28th October, 2004
Standard C library script vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 4.10
Details
Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the
libc6 package. The utilities "catchsegv" and "glibcbug" created
temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to
create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user
invoking the program.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 4.10:
- libc6
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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