A Decade Old Unix/Linux/BSD Root Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered

🗓️ 19 Jun 2017 20:00:49Reported by Swati KhandelwalType

A Decade Old Unix/Linux/BSD Root Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered. Vulnerability in Memory Allocation Can Lead to Full System Takeove

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SUSE Linux	Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 6 for SLE 12 SP2 (important)	21 Jul 201715:13	–	suse
SUSE Linux	Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 1 for SLE 12 SP2 (important)	20 Jul 201718:11	–	suse
SUSE Linux	Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 16 for SLE 12 (important)	20 Jul 201715:11	–	suse
SUSE Linux	Security update for the Linux Kernel (critical)	19 Jun 201721:13	–	suse
SUSE Linux	Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 8 for SLE 12 SP2 (important)	20 Jul 201715:10	–	suse
SUSE Linux	Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 12 for SLE 12 SP1 (important)	24 Jul 201721:10	–	suse
SUSE Linux	Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 8 for SLE 12 SP1 (important)	20 Jul 201721:12	–	suse
SUSE Linux	Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 4 for SLE 12 SP2 (important)	21 Jul 201715:11	–	suse

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19 Jun 2017 20:49Current

8.7High risk

Vulners AI Score8.7

EPSS0.10343