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Root access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distros

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Root access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distros

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joojmachine@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago

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Qualys researchers discovered a root access flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-6246, in GNU Library C (glibc) affecting multiple Linux distributions.

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C is just crazy. You accidentally forget to put the bounds in a sorting function, and now you are root.

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