The real bomb-shell here that I find terrifying, is that there is still an open and (likely) exploitable bug in glibc that has been around for years and isn't getting attention. glibc is <i>everywhere</i> and used by almost <i>everything</i>. If you program in almost any modern language like ruby, node.js, python, java, C, C++, or more, you are calling functions in glibc.<p>Note: Unless you use an alternative libc implementation such as musl, which is standard on things like Alpine Linux for example. However glibc is by far most common.