New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros
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**Executive summary:** A newly disclosed heap-based buffer overflow in glibc's __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246, CVSS 7.8) can allow local attackers to gain full root privileges; analysis also identified two other __vsyslog_internal flaws (CVE-2023-6779, CVE-2023-6780) and a historic qsort() memory-corruption bug affecting many glibc versions and major Linux distributions.
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