Bypass Linux Disk Encryption Just By Pressing 'ENTER' for 70 Seconds

Discussion in 'News Aggregator' started by Swati Khandelwal, 16 Nov 2016.

  1. A hacker with little more than a minute can bypass the authentication procedures on some Linux systems just by holding down the Enter key for around 70 seconds. The result? The act grants the hacker a shell with root privileges, which allows them to gain complete remote control over encrypted Linux machine. The security issue relies due to a vulnerability (CVE-2016-4484) in the
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