A UK-based security researcher says Linux distributions may be vulnerable to a similar problem related to the way that Linux handles a specific variable in some cases. The bug apparently was introduced via a Debian patch last year. Security experts say the problem isn t on the same scale as the Windows DLL hijacking bug and that the bug would be difficult to exploit remotely. It s unclear at this point whether there’s an easy fix for the problem, but security experts say it’s not a direct analog to the Windows bug.
Source: https://threatpost.com/some-linux-distros-vulnerable-version-dll-hijacking-bug-082610/74387/