A buffer overflow issue has been disclosed in the GNU C Library’s dynamic loader ld.so, which might allow local attackers to acquire root privileges on vulnerable Linux systems.  The Linux vulnerability is identified as “Looney Tunables” and tagged as CVE-2023-4911. The flaw was discovered in glibc version 2.34, which was released in April 2021. Document FREE […]

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