A key concern with Looney Tunables is the buffer overflow it triggers in the dynamic loader’s handling of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. It leads to full root privileges on major Linux distributions.
Source: Linux Insider
Qualys Discovers Critical Linux Flaw ‘Looney Tunables’
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