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The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming

It seems a recent update to glibc with version 2.41 release at the end of January, has been causing all sorts of problems for Linux gamers that have pulled in the update (mostly on rolling-release distributions).

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

This week’s news about the "Looney Tunes flaw" highlighted a condition which can allow a local user to access root privileges from the command line. Part of the RL Security team's task is to have mitigation strategies ready for such cases - reporting vulnerabilities and suggesting fixes upstream, and also writing our own extra packages.

This week, the Security SIG has published our extra packages and formalized a wiki: rockylinux.org/news/security-s… #looneytunables #securityupdate #glibc