{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"CVE-2023-4911","published":"2023-10-03T17:25:08.434Z","modified":"2026-08-28T11:45:58.276800269Z","related":["ALSA-2023:5453","ALSA-2023:5455","CGA-93wj-5qf3-qrwp","openSUSE-SU-2024:13294-1"],"summary":"Glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation","details":"A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. 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