From BeepingComputer.
I wonder if this could be used to root previously unrootable Android based devices.
Android doesn’t use glibc, but Bionic, a C standard library developed by Google. So I don’t think this vulnerability affects Android.
What the heck. I thought, they were using musl.
Certainly seems like this has rather similar goals to musl…That’s no reason for Google not to reinvent the wheel…
They did the same with dalvik and ART now. JVMs, but more googlier!
And Quic, and Pony express, and GFS…
Think Android uses Bionic instead of glibc (where the vulnerability is being exploited).
Wonder if musl is fine. If so,Void people are certainly having fun now.
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.
It’s always memory management
It’s always memory management
No wonder everyone’s crazy about Rust.
It’s certainly why it is being used to build browsers and OSs now. Those are places were memory management problems are a huge problem. It probably doesn’t make sense for every match 3 game to be made in Rust, but when errors cause massive breaches or death, it’s a lot safer than C++, taking human faulability into account.
What makes rust so resiliant against these types of atacks?
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Typically there’s a period of responsible disclosure to give the software maintainer an opportunity to fix it before it’s widely announced. After that period is up or the fix has been released the vulnerability discoverer is able to announce it and take credit for finding it.
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Qualys and Red Hat are pretty big names, so they’d be likely to follow the typical process.
Distro developers were notified a month ago. At least Redhat and Debian have have published fixed versions. This is common procedure.
Security through obscurity is never good.
It’s better that vulnerabilities be discussed openly. In general, people knowing the truth allows them to make better decisions.
It’s not only the good guys that find vulnerabilities. There’re many states and companies (selling to those governments) as well as regular criminal organizations paying people for vulnerabilities and exploits.
If the issue wasn’t reported, it is likely that it would have been found by someone else at some point. It might even be known already, but just not reported.
