If Marvin the Martian makes it onto your computer and does privilege escalation to take it over, we might now know just how they did it. A new Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability, dubbed Looney Tunables. that can bump basic users to root was discovered, affecting a plethora of Linux installations.

Glibc is the GNU C Library project,

Source: Hot Hardware – Looney Tunables Exploit Gives Hackers Root Access To Linux, That’s All Folks