Glibc Dynamic Loader Hit By A Nasty Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Quoting from https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-LD-Nasty-Root-Bug
A nasty vulnerability has been made public today concerning Glibc's dynamic loader that can lead to full root privileges being obtained by local users. This affects Linux distributions of the past two years with the likes of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 23.04, Fedora 38, and others vulnerable to this local privilege escalation issue.
On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 12:23:55PM +0200, Adam Mizerski wrote:
Quoting from https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-LD-Nasty-Root-Bug
A nasty vulnerability has been made public today concerning Glibc's dynamic loader that can lead to full root privileges being obtained by local users. This affects Linux distributions of the past two years with the likes of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 23.04, Fedora 38, and others vulnerable to this local privilege escalation issue.
This affects only openSUSE Tumbleweed, which will soon receive updates. openSUSE Leap or SLE are not affected. Ciao, Marcus
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