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Researchers are pondering the magnitude of the glibc vulnerability and its exploitability via DNS. Not since Stagefright have we had a vulnerability with the scale and reach of the glibc flaw ...

Glibc, the GNU C library at the core of last year’s GHOST vulnerability, is vulnerable to another critical flaw affecting nearly all Linux machines, as well as API web services and major web ...

The GNU C Library (glibc) is essential to Linux. So, when something goes wrong with it, it's a big deal. When a fix was made in early June for a relatively minor problem, CVE-2021-33574, which ...

Vulnerabilities they discovered include a flaw in glibc's ld.so dynamic loader (Looney Tunables), one in Polkit's pkexec component (dubbed PwnKit), another in the Kernel's filesystem layer (dubbed ...

The vulnerability affects all version of the GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, since version 2.9. According to research by Google’s Staff Security Engineer Fermin J. Serna and Technical Program ...

While the vulnerability was introduced in April 2021, other distributions are likely similarly susceptible, with Alpine Linux being a notable exception due to its use of musl libc instead of glibc.

Remote execution The bug is found in glibc - a open-source library of code that is widely used in internet-connected devices. One particular function is domain look-up.