CVE-2023-4911: Looney Tunables - Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc’s ld.so | Qualys Security Blog

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CVE-2023-4911: Looney Tunables - Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc’s ld.so | Qualys Security Blog

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The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU C Library’s dynamic loader’s processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.

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