Root access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distros
Root access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distros
securityaffairs.com Root access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distros
Qualys researchers discovered a root access flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-6246, in GNU Library C (glibc) affecting multiple Linux distributions.
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4 0 ReplyThx for pointing that out 🤙
3 0 ReplySymlink or copy/rename could trigger it, as long as there is a user writable area with execute perms? /home usually allows exec?
Also some of the exec* functions allow manipulating the argv[0], so possibly another vector there.
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