Mageia alert MGASA-2025-0164 (glibc)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2025-0164: Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerability
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Sun, 25 May 2025 01:26:38 +0200
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MGASA-2025-0164 - Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 24 May 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0164.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2025-4802

Description:
An untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable vulnerability in the GNU
C Library versions 2.27 to 2.38 allows attacker-controlled loading of
dynamically shared libraries in statically compiled setuid binaries that
call dlopen (including internal dlopen calls after setlocale or calls to
NSS functions such as getaddrinfo). (CVE-2025-4802)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34286
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-4802

SRPMS:
- 9/core/glibc-2.36-56.mga9