DSA-5514-1 glibc -- glibc| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:95220 | Date: (C)2023-12-01 (M)2024-02-29 |
| Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
The Qualys Research Labs discovered a buffer overflow in the dynamic loader"s processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. An attacker can exploit this flaw for privilege escalation. Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at https://www.qualys.com/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911/looney-tunables-local-privilege-escalation-glibc-ld-so.txt
| Platform: |
| Linux Mint 6 |
| Linux Mint 5 |
| Product: |
| glibc-doc |
| libc-l10n |
| libc6 |
| libc-devtools |
| glibc-source |
| locales |
| libc-bin |
| libc-dev-bin |
| nscd |
