Dangerous security flaw patched in Linux
Now, it turns out that Linux may not be quite as secure as we thought.
A "highly dangerous" privilege escalation vulnerability that would permit an attacker to execute arbitrary code as root from any GUI application via X server, was recently patched in the Linux kernel, writes Lucia Constantin on Softpedia. The flaw, which affects both x86_32 and x86_64 platforms, is said to have been present since the release of Linux 2.6.0.
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