vulnerability

Software Security

Issued by: CIO Security

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

The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability that’s already being exploited in the wild and poses a serious risk to servers, desktops and other devices that run the OS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-5195, has existed in the Linux kernel for the past nine years. This means that many…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

“Dirty COW” Linux Kernel Exploit Seen in the Wild

A new Linux kernel vulnerability disclosed on Wednesday allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate their privileges on a targeted system. Red Hat said it was aware of an exploit in the wild. The vulnerability, discovered by Phil Oester, was sarcastically dubbed by some people “Dirty COW” due to the fact that it’s caused by…