A new Linux vulnerability known as 'Looney Tunables' enables local attackers to gain root privileges by exploiting a buffer overflow weakness in the GNU C Library's ld.so dynamic loader.

the vulnerability has existed since its introduction in April 2021, putting a significant number of systems at risk

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Qualys TRU has demonstrated successful exploitation of this vulnerability on default installations of several Linux distributions, including Fedora 37 and 38, Ubuntu 22.04 and 23.04, and Debian 12 and 13

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