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uutils coreutils 'stdbuf' uses LD_PRELOAD on a world-writable temporary file
<p>Posted by Collin Funk on Aug 19</p>GNU coreutils distributes a 'stdbuf' program that executes another<br /> program with modified buffering characteristics for its standard<br /> streams. It does this by setting environment variables and then setting<br /> LD_PRELOAD (or the platform-specific equivalent) to a shared library<br /> named "libstdbuf.so". This shared library use
Original source: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/523