There’s a fun buffer overflow problem in the Glibc __vsyslog_internal() function. This one’s a real rollercoaster, because logging vulnerabilities are always scary, but at a first look ...

Experts urge system administrators to patch the Ghost vulnerability in glibc immediately, but counter that as well that exploiting the bug may be challenging. There are some silver linings in the ...

In short, it's bad news. Popov himself thinks "every Linux application including interpreters of other languages (python, PHP) is linked with glibc. It's the second important thing after the ...

On the other hand, this GNU C Library's (glibc) dynamic loader vulnerability is a buffer overflow, which is always big trouble, and it's in pretty much all Linux distributions, so it's more than ...

Researchers at Sucuri revealed that applications such as WordPress that support PHP could also be subject to the Ghost vulnerability in glibc. Less than 48 hours after the disclosure of the Ghost ...

The GNU C Library (glibc) is the GNU system's C library and is in most Linux kernel-based systems. It provides essential functionality, including system calls like open, malloc, printf ...

I know debian has two different versions of gcc available, and they can be installed simultaneously. They're installed as gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95 and gcc is a symlink to one or the other, depending ...

The vulnerability in question affects the processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable, a feature introduced in glibc to allow users to fine-tune the library's behavior at runtime. "A ...

Tracked as CVE-2023-6246, this security flaw was found in glibc's __vsyslog_internal() function, called by the widely-used syslog and vsyslog functions for writing messages to the system message ...

A major computer security vulnerability has been discovered - with experts cautiously warning it could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of devices, apps and services. However, due to the ...