A new Linux vulnerability known as 'Looney Tunables' enables local attackers to gain root privileges by exploiting a buffer overflow weakness in the GNU C Library's ld.so dynamic loader.

From BeepingComputer.

  • intelati@programming.dev
    111·
    1 year ago

    C is almost the old “steady” standard now it feels like. It’s so flexible and the frameworks are already built…

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
      15·
      1 year ago

      …except that we also end up with cracks in our foundations like this exploit constantly being exposed as a result of all that C