‘A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017’: Time to update your kernel

via xint.io

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Gaming on Linux has never been better—but that doesn’t mean your distros are free from security threats. Case in point is a severe vulnerability nicknamed ‘Copy Fail,’ which allows a local user to dig into the guts of the OS and give themselves root privileges merely by writing four bytes of controlled data into the […]

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