Malicious code execution likely with high-severity Linux bug

Numerous Linux distributions for the past two years have been impacted by a high-severity buffer overflow vulnerability involving the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable dubbed "Looney Tunables," which could be exploited to enable malicious code execution with elevated privileges, reports SiliconAngle.

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