New 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distros

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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...