Impacts Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora systems
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-glibc-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-distros/
​Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc).
Tracked as CVE-2023-6246, this security flaw was found in glibc's __vsyslog_internal() function, called by the widely-used syslog and vsyslog functions for writing messages to the system message logger.
Impacts Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora systems
Tue Jan 30, 11:28pm UTC
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-glibc-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-distros/
> ​Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc).
> Tracked as CVE-2023-6246, this security flaw was found in glibc's __vsyslog_internal() function, called by the widely-used syslog and vsyslog functions for writing messages to the system message logger.