Vulnerabilities tagged "vulnerability"

Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc's ld.so

A buffer overflow vulnerability was introduced in a 2021 patch to glibc's dynamic loader when processing `GLIBC_TUNABLES` environment variables.Tunables are basically configuration settings of the runtime that can be set via key/value pairs in the form of `key=val`...
 

Remote Code Execution in WinRAR

A fairly simple processing bug in WinRAR resulting in code execution with benign seeming interaction with an archive; unfortunately this one was seen being exploited in the wild to spread malware.
 
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