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5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Flaw Discovered

🗓️ 07 Dec 2016 04:41:00Reported by Swati KhandelwalType 
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A 5-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerability discovered in Linux kernel affects various Linux distros including Red Hat and Ubuntu. Exploiting a race condition in af_packet allows unprivileged local user to gain root privileges, leading to potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution

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