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Yeah if I’m reading the technical analysis right, your conditions that you mention have to be correct and also the attacker must have “poisoned” library files on the targets machine so they can dlopen them, is that right?

Pretty unlikely

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The libraries are on the client's machine, not the server's. And they're not "poisoned"; the default distro-provided libs already provide the remote execution capabiity (eclipse-titan, libkf5sonnetui5, libns3-3v5 and systemd-boot packages from Ubuntu 22.04).

Ahh I see I thought the attacker also had to have custom malicious libs deployed on the client machine I wasn't sure if standard ones would do, thanks for clarifying that

There must be a specific set of libs present on the victim (client), correct. Qualys claims that stock Ubuntu Desktop systems often have these libs, and that they haven't looked into whether other distros tend to.

But yes, your point stands. Huge number of preconditions here to fulfill.

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