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Test your applicationsUpgrade Oracle:8 glibc-langpack-fy to version 0:2.28-225.0.4.el8_8.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2023-5455.
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-langpack-fy package and not the glibc-langpack-fy package as distributed by Oracle.
See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with elevated privileges.