A Decade Old Unix/Linux/BSD Root Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered

Posted: 06/27/2017 | Leave a Comment

Security researchers have discovered more than a decade-old vulnerability in several Unix-based operating systems – including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris – which can be exploited by attackers to escalate their privileges to root, potentially leading to a full system takeover.

http://thehackernews.com/2017/06/linux-root-privilege-escalation.html

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