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New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros - The Hacker News - 01-31-2024
New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros
Malicious local attackers can obtain full root access on Linux machines by taking advantage of a newly disclosed security flaw in the GNU C library (aka glibc).
Tracked as CVE-2023-6246, the heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability is rooted in glibc's __vsyslog_internal() function, which is used by syslog() and vsyslog() for system logging purposes. It's said to have been accidentally
https://thehackernews.com/2024/01/new-glibc-flaw-grants-attackers-root.html