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Hi, Gentoo has issued an advisory: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-16.xml "An attacker can gain the list of symbols a SUID application uses and their locations and can then use a trojaned library taking precendence over those symbols to gain information or perform further exploitation." with the following patch: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-libs/glibc/files/glibc-sec-hotfix-20040804.patch?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Does somebody knows more about this? Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
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