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Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Linux security hole - The Register

Hello:

This appeared on The Register tonight:

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Make-me-root 'Looney Tunables' security hole on Linux needs your attention
By Thomas Claburn - Wed 4 Oct 2023 // 21:27 UTC
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/04/ … ables_bug/

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... a security hole that can be fairly easily exploited by rogue users, intruders, and malicious software to gain root access ...
... a buffer overflow vulnerability in the GNU C Library's handling of an environmental variable ...
... arises from the GNU C Library's dynamic loader (ld.so) mishandling of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environmental variable.

As usual. we'll see a patch/fix in no time at all.

Best,

A.

boughtonp

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Registered: 2023-01-19

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Re: Linux security hole - The Register

As usual. we'll see a patch/fix in no time at all.

The patch was already released through the security repos a day before the article.

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Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

Posts: 1,434  

Re: Linux security hole - The Register

Hello:

... already released through the security repos a day before the article.

See?
No time at all.  8^P

Cheers,

A.