“Examining the Critical Glibc Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: A Threat to Linux Distributions”
## Vulnerabilities Severe Glibc Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacts Major Linux Distributions **By | New York Times** Major Linux distributions such as Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu are currently at risk due to a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc), which could provide an attacker with full root privileges. Introduced in April 2021…