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New 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distros(www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Veticia@lemmy.ml
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I wonder if this could be used to root previously unrootable Android based devices.

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loics2@lemm.ee
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Android doesn’t use glibc, but Bionic, a C standard library developed by Google. So I don’t think this vulnerability affects Android.

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Knusper@feddit.de
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What the heck. I thought, they were using musl.
Certainly seems like this has rather similar goals to musl…

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AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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That’s no reason for Google not to reinvent the wheel…

They did the same with dalvik and ART now. JVMs, but more googlier!

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