[in the news]: Root privileges through vulnerability in GNU C loader - The H

[Jonathan Nalley]

"According to the developer's tests, at least glibc versions 2.12.1
under Fedora 13 and 2.5 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 are
vulnerable."

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Root-privileges-through-vulnerability-in-GNU-C-loader-1110182.html