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In parse_tunables (lines 170-257).

d5f64fea-0dae-49d1-a866-cdbadcfc36ff

In parse_tunables (lines 170-257).

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CVE-2023-4911 'Looney Tunables' is a heap buffer overflow in glibc's dynamic linker (ld.so) — Triggered when a setuid/setgid binary inherits a malformed GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. Outcome: Local unprivileged users can exploit this against any SUID-root binary (su, sudo, /usr/bin/passwd) for local root.

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Dynamic Linker / Privilege Escalation

IDENTIFIESReport

CVE-2023-4911 Looney Tunables: heap overflow in glibc parse_tunables (GLIBC_TUNABLES env var)

IDENTIFIESReport

CVE-2023-4911 Looney Tunables: Buffer Overflow in glibc parse_tunables() via name=name=val input

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