Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2023-0286)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Updated glibc packages fix a security vulnerability

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when...

China’s Cyber Espionage Targets Semiconductor Giants in East Asia

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary In recent cyber espionage activities, threat actors affiliated with the Peoples Republic of China PRC have targeted semiconductor companies operating in Mandarin/Chinese-speaking regions of East Asia...

The vulnerability in the fs/ntfs.c component of the Grub2 operating system allows a hacker to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the fs/ntfs.c component of the Grub2 operating system’s loader is related to memory-walking attacks. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to protected information...

K000137187: GlibC vulnerability CVE-2023-4911

Security Advisory Description A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with...

Oracle Linux 8 : glibc (ELSA-2023-12853)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12853 advisory. 2.28-225.0.4 - CVE-2023-4911: tunables: Terminate immediately if end of input is reached Reviewed by: Jose E. Marchesi Tenable has extracted the preceding...

glibc ld.so Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Dubbed Looney Tunables, Qualys discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the glibc dynamic loader's processing of the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This vulnerability was introduced in April 2021 glibc 2.34 by commit 2ed18c. Looney Tunables: Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc's ld....

SUSE CVE-2023-4911

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...

glibc ld.so Local Privilege Escalation

Qualys Security Advisory Looney Tunables: Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc's ld.so CVE-2023-4911 ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Analysis Proof of concept...

Oracle Linux 9 : glibc (ELSA-2023-12854)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12854 advisory. 2.34-60.0.3 - CVE-2023-4911: tunables: Terminate immediately if end of input is reached Reviewed by: Jose E. Marchesi Tenable has extracted the preceding...

glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...

glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...

glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...

glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...

Oracle Linux 8 : glibc (ELSA-2023-12851)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12851 advisory. 2.28-225.0.4 - CVE-2023-4911: tunables: Terminate immediately if end of input is reached Reviewed by: Jose E. Marchesi Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Oracle Linux 9 : glibc (ELSA-2023-12850)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12850 advisory. 2.34-60.0.3 - CVE-2023-4911: tunables: Terminate immediately if end of input is reached Reviewed by: Jose E. Marchesi Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Exploit for Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Gnu Glibc

PoC of CVE-2023-4911 "Looney Tunables" This is a PoC of CVE-2...

The vulnerability of the dynamic loader ld.so of the glibc library allows a attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

The vulnerability of the dynamic loader ld.so for the glibc library is related to buffer overflow in dynamic memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges by running binary files with SUID permissions and creating a variable environmen...

GLSA-202310-03 : glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202310-03 glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities - An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library glibc 2.36. When the syslog function is passed a crafted input string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the heap and...

AZL-34733 CVE-2023-4911 affecting package glibc for versions less than 2.38-6

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...