1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2328-1

USN-2328-1: GNU C Library vulnerability

Publication date

29 August 2014

Overview

Certain applications could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Releases

Packages

Details

Tavis Ormandy and John Haxby discovered that the GNU C Library contained an
off-by-one error when performing transliteration module loading. A local
attacker could exploit this to gain administrative privileges.
(CVE-2014-5119)

USN-2306-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the security update for CVE-2014-0475 caused a
regression with localplt on PowerPC. This update fixes the problem. We
apologize for the inconvenience.

Tavis Ormandy and John Haxby discovered that the GNU C Library contained an
off-by-one error when performing transliteration module loading. A local
attacker could exploit this to gain administrative privileges.
(CVE-2014-5119)

USN-2306-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the security update for CVE-2014-0475 caused a
regression with localplt on PowerPC. This update fixes the problem. We
apologize for the inconvenience.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
14.04 trusty libc6 –  2.19-0ubuntu6.3
12.04 precise libc6 –  2.15-0ubuntu10.7
10.04 lucid libc6 –  2.11.1-0ubuntu7.16

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