Your message dated Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:30:41 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#600667: Fw: re: eglibc: cve-2010-3847 dynamic linker
expands $ORIGIN in setuid library search path
has caused the Debian Bug report #600667,
regarding eglibc: cve-2010-3847 dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in setuid
library search path
to be marked as done.
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package: eglibc
version: 2.11.2-6
severity: grave
tag: patch
an issue has been disclosed in eglibc. see:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/257
patch available:
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2010-10/msg00007.html
best wishes,
mike
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:17:54AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 09:19:53PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > reopen 600667
> > thanks
> >
> > Maybe I'm reading things wrong, or maybe Mitre's information is
> > actually incorrect, but it looks like the fixes claimed for
> > CVE-2010-3847 in 2.11.2-8 actually address CVE-2010-3856 [0] instead.
> > It looks like CVE-2010-3847 [1] is still unfixed. The original fix in
> > -7 may have been correct to begin with?
> >
>
> We have removed the fix in -7 because:
> - it has been removed in the new upload to lenny
> - it never went upstream.
>
> It has been replaced by this commit instead:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2010-12/msg00001.html
>
> So I don't think there is any security issue left with the current
> patch set.
>
Given I have got no answer, I guess everybody agrees the bug is really
fixed. Closing it.
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