LXer: Easy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux computers at risk

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10-24-2016, 10:10 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,589 Rep:	LXer: Easy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux computers at risk Published at LXer: The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-5195, that has existed in the Linux kernel for the past nine years and is already being exploited in the wild. Read More...

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