5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Flaw Discovered

Discussion in 'News Aggregator' started by Swati Khandelwal, 8 Dec 2016.

  1. A 5-year-old serious privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux kernel that affects almost every distro of the Linux operating system, including Redhat, and Ubuntu. Over a month back, a nine-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerability, dubbed "Dirty COW," was discovered in the Linux kernel that affected every distro of the open-source operating system, including Red Hat,
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