The Linux GNU C Library Vulnerability: What It Is, How To Fix ItEarlier this week, the maintainers of the GNU C Library (known as glibc, an open-source software library widely used in Linux systems) announced that they had released a fix for a vulnerability introduced in 2008 that allowed a buffer overflow to take place. This could be used by an attacker to run malicious code on a Linux system.
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The Linux GNU C Library Vulnerability: What It Is, How To Fix It
