glibc LD_PRELOAD

[Ethan Benson]

is potato vulnerable to the LD_PRELOAD file overwriting vulnerability
discussed at http://www.securityfocus.com/vdb/bottom.html?vid=2223

there was an unexplained libc6 update on Jan 10 for i386 (but not
powerpc, not sure about other archs) to security.debian.org, all the
changelog mentions is `Add backported security patch from glibc 2.2' 

current version of libc6 on powerpc is: 2.1.3-13
current version of libc6 on i386 is: 2.1.3-15

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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