A glibc update is available for Gentoo Linux

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200408-16
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Low
Title: glibc: Information leak with LD_DEBUG
Date: August 16, 2004
Bugs: #59526
ID: 200408-16

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Synopsis
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glibc contains an information leak vulnerability allowing the debugging of SUID binaries.



Background
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The GNU C library defines various Unix-like "system calls" and other basic facilities needed for a standard POSIX-like application to operate.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 sys-libs/glibc = 2.3.2-r11
2 sys-libs/glibc = 2.3.3.20040420-r1
3 sys-libs/glibc = 2.3.4.20040619-r1
4 sys-libs/glibc = 2.3.4.20040619-r1
5 sys-libs/glibc