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minus-squareVeticialinkfedilink33•1 year agoI wonder if this could be used to root previously unrootable Android based devices.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink53•1 year agoAndroid doesn’t use glibc, but Bionic, a C standard library developed by Google. So I don’t think this vulnerability affects Android.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•1 year agoWhat the heck. I thought, they were using musl. Certainly seems like this has rather similar goals to musl…
minus-squareAggressivelyPassivelinkfedilink17•1 year agoThat’s no reason for Google not to reinvent the wheel… They did the same with dalvik and ART now. JVMs, but more googlier!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•1 year agoThink Android uses Bionic instead of glibc (where the vulnerability is being exploited).
I wonder if this could be used to root previously unrootable Android based devices.
Android doesn’t use glibc, but Bionic, a C standard library developed by Google. So I don’t think this vulnerability affects Android.
What the heck. I thought, they were using musl.
Certainly seems like this has rather similar goals to musl…
That’s no reason for Google not to reinvent the wheel…
They did the same with dalvik and ART now. JVMs, but more googlier!
And Quic, and Pony express, and GFS…
Think Android uses Bionic instead of glibc (where the vulnerability is being exploited).