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

Posted by abennett on Oct 24, 2016 11:07 AM EDT
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The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-5195, that has existed in the Linux kernel for the past nine years and is already being exploited in the wild.

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