A new Linux vulnerability known as 'Looney Tunables' enables local attackers to gain root privileges by exploiting a buffer overflow weakness in the GNU C Library's ld.so dynamic loader.

From BeepingComputer.

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    …except that we also end up with cracks in our foundations like this exploit constantly being exposed as a result of all that C