joojmachine@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoRoot access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distrossecurityaffairs.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarePlexSheep@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoThat’s not the main part of the article, just a footnote, for anyone wondering. The flaw resides in the glibc’s syslog function, an attacker can exploit the flaw to gain root access through a privilege escalation. The vulnerability was introduced in glibc 2.37 in August 2022.
That’s not the main part of the article, just a footnote, for anyone wondering.