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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 03:27:18 +0200
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-4911: Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc's ld.so

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 05:50:36PM +0000, Qualys Security Advisory wrote:
> We successfully exploited this vulnerability and obtained full root
> privileges on the default installations of Fedora 37 and 38, Ubuntu
> 22.04 and 23.04, Debian 12 and 13; other distributions are probably also
> vulnerable and exploitable (one notable exception is Alpine Linux, which
> uses musl libc, not the glibc). We will not publish our exploit for now;
> however, this buffer overflow is easily exploitable (by transforming it
> into a data-only attack), and other researchers might publish working
> exploits shortly after this coordinated disclosure.

And they did, here are a couple:

https://github.com/leesh3288/CVE-2023-4911
https://github.com/RickdeJager/CVE-2023-4911

Alexander

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