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  1. This week’s news about the "Looney Tunes flaw" highlighted a condition which can allow a local user to access root privileges from the command line. Part of the RL Security team's task is to have mitigation strategies ready for such cases - reporting vulnerabilities and suggesting fixes upstream, and also writing our own extra packages.

    This week, the Security SIG has published our extra packages and formalized a wiki: rockylinux.org/news/security-s

  2. This week’s news about the "Looney Tunes flaw" highlighted a condition which can allow a local user to access root privileges from the command line. Part of the RL Security team's task is to have mitigation strategies ready for such cases - reporting vulnerabilities and suggesting fixes upstream, and also writing our own extra packages.

    This week, the Security SIG has published our extra packages and formalized a wiki: rockylinux.org/news/security-s #looneytunables #securityupdate #glibc

  3. This week’s news about the "Looney Tunes flaw" highlighted a condition which can allow a local user to access root privileges from the command line. Part of the RL Security team's task is to have mitigation strategies ready for such cases - reporting vulnerabilities and suggesting fixes upstream, and also writing our own extra packages.

    This week, the Security SIG has published our extra packages and formalized a wiki: rockylinux.org/news/security-s #looneytunables #securityupdate #glibc

  4. This week’s news about the "Looney Tunes flaw" highlighted a condition which can allow a local user to access root privileges from the command line. Part of the RL Security team's task is to have mitigation strategies ready for such cases - reporting vulnerabilities and suggesting fixes upstream, and also writing our own extra packages.

    This week, the Security SIG has published our extra packages and formalized a wiki: rockylinux.org/news/security-s #looneytunables #securityupdate #glibc

  5. "🐧 Looney Tunables: A New Linux Flaw Unveiled 🚨"

    A new Linux vulnerability, dubbed "Looney Tunables," has been unearthed, posing a significant threat to major distributions like Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian. This flaw, identified as CVE-2023-4911 (CVSS score: 7.8), resides in the GNU C library's ld.so dynamic loader and could potentially enable a local privilege escalation, granting a threat actor root privileges. The bug, discovered by cybersecurity firm Qualys, was introduced in April 2021 and impacts the processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. 🐛🛑

    Source: The Hacker News

    Bleeping computer

    Tags: #Linux #Vulnerability #LooneyTunables #PrivilegeEscalation #Cybersecurity #GNU #glibc #CVE20234911 🐧🔐🚨

    🔗 MITRE CVE-2023-4911

  6. "🐧 Looney Tunables: A New Linux Flaw Unveiled 🚨"

    A new Linux vulnerability, dubbed "Looney Tunables," has been unearthed, posing a significant threat to major distributions like Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian. This flaw, identified as CVE-2023-4911 (CVSS score: 7.8), resides in the GNU C library's ld.so dynamic loader and could potentially enable a local privilege escalation, granting a threat actor root privileges. The bug, discovered by cybersecurity firm Qualys, was introduced in April 2021 and impacts the processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. 🐛🛑

    Source: The Hacker News

    Bleeping computer

    Tags: #Linux #Vulnerability #LooneyTunables #PrivilegeEscalation #Cybersecurity #GNU #glibc #CVE20234911 🐧🔐🚨

    🔗 MITRE CVE-2023-4911

  7. "🐧 Looney Tunables: A New Linux Flaw Unveiled 🚨"

    A new Linux vulnerability, dubbed "Looney Tunables," has been unearthed, posing a significant threat to major distributions like Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian. This flaw, identified as CVE-2023-4911 (CVSS score: 7.8), resides in the GNU C library's ld.so dynamic loader and could potentially enable a local privilege escalation, granting a threat actor root privileges. The bug, discovered by cybersecurity firm Qualys, was introduced in April 2021 and impacts the processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. 🐛🛑

    Source: The Hacker News

    Bleeping computer

    Tags: #Linux #Vulnerability #LooneyTunables #PrivilegeEscalation #Cybersecurity #GNU #glibc #CVE20234911 🐧🔐🚨

    🔗 MITRE CVE-2023-4911

  8. "🐧 Looney Tunables: A New Linux Flaw Unveiled 🚨"

    A new Linux vulnerability, dubbed "Looney Tunables," has been unearthed, posing a significant threat to major distributions like Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian. This flaw, identified as CVE-2023-4911 (CVSS score: 7.8), resides in the GNU C library's ld.so dynamic loader and could potentially enable a local privilege escalation, granting a threat actor root privileges. The bug, discovered by cybersecurity firm Qualys, was introduced in April 2021 and impacts the processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. 🐛🛑

    Source: The Hacker News

    Bleeping computer

    Tags: #Linux #Vulnerability #LooneyTunables #PrivilegeEscalation #Cybersecurity #GNU #glibc #CVE20234911 🐧🔐🚨

    🔗 MITRE CVE-2023-4911