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New 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distros
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Just got some glibc updates in Arch yesterday. I wonder if they contain fixes for this.
Yep.
Thanks! Not just for notifying about the fix but also showing me where package revisions are built from! I just love the transparency of Arch.
Arch is a meme, but it is honestly really cool too.
Makes me wonder. LMDE got a glibc update too and Mint is very much not leading edge when it comes to non-critical updates.
Case in point, at roughly the same time as the glibc update, we (LMDE users) were upgraded to the latest Thunderbird, 115.3.1, four or five days after that sub-version came out. That's the sort of lag we generally see. (115.x was a bit of a surprise too as we've been on 102.x, but that's not strictly relevant here.)
LMDE is 100% using Debian packages for the core OS if you want a newer Thunderbird go to flathub.
edit.
I only mentioned the lag to make the point that if we're getting an update at the same time as Arch that maybe it was an important one.
Anyone on Mint who finds themselves trying to leap ahead of the default release schedule might want to at least sniff around a different distro or two.
That said, Flatpaks with later versions are also often available in the provided Software Manager (basically an app store), so that's a place to look before jumping ship. Hard to tell now, but I think 115 was the Flatpak option while the, uh, default default was 102.
Ran nala after seeing this post and got a libc update on Debian myself