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).
(Edit: Also, as a general rule – don’t type stuff as root just because I or some other random person on the internet tells you to; check the man page or docs to make sure it’s going to do something that you want it to do first.)
am running Gentoo with systemd. does a bug in syslog affect me?
I don’t see why it wouldn’t. I think for gentoo, you want to check if you need any security updates with:
emerge --sync emerge gentoolkit glsa-check -l affected(Edit: Also, as a general rule – don’t type stuff as root just because I or some other random person on the internet tells you to; check the man page or docs to make sure it’s going to do something that you want it to do first.)
Thank you!