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TITLE:
GNU C Library "locale" Quoting Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43976

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-04-05

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DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in the GNU C Library, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

The weakness is caused due to the "locale" command not properly
quoting its output, which can be exploited to gain escalated
privileges by e.g. setting malicious locale environment variables and
executing a script running with different privileges that evaluates
the "locale" command output.

The weakness is reported in versions prior to 2.13.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.13.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Harald van Dijk

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
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