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Looney Tunables: New Linux Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation on Major Distributions

🗓️ 04 Oct 2023 07:21:00Reported by The Hacker NewsType 
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New Linux Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation on Major Distributions. Looney Tunables is a buffer overflow vulnerability in glibc's dynamic loader handling GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable, impacting various Linux distributions and allowing threat actors to gain root privileges

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04 Oct 2023 14:57Current
7.9High risk
Vulners AI Score7.9
CVSS 27.2
CVSS 3.17.8
EPSS0.99295
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