Joe Klemmer to Linux@lemmy.ml • 9 months agoNew 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distroswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1290arrow-down13cross-posted to: news
arrow-up1287arrow-down1external-linkNew 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distroswww.bleepingcomputer.comJoe Klemmer to Linux@lemmy.ml • 9 months agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: news
minus-square@loics2@lemm.eelinkfedilink60•9 months agoAndroid doesn’t use glibc, but Bionic, a C standard library developed by Google. So I don’t think this vulnerability affects Android.
minus-square@Knusper@feddit.delinkfedilink9•9 months agoWhat the heck. I thought, they were using musl. Certainly seems like this has rather similar goals to musl…
minus-squareAggressivelyPassivelinkfedilink17•9 months agoThat’s no reason for Google not to reinvent the wheel… They did the same with dalvik and ART now. JVMs, but more googlier!
Android doesn’t use glibc, but Bionic, a C standard library developed by Google. So I don’t think this vulnerability affects Android.
What the heck. I thought, they were using musl.
Certainly seems like this has rather similar goals to musl…
That’s no reason for Google not to reinvent the wheel…
They did the same with dalvik and ART now. JVMs, but more googlier!
And Quic, and Pony express, and GFS…