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There's a new exploit in town that affects a variety of Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris running on 32-bit and 64-bit x86. According to Qualys, which discovered the flaw, other operating systems and architectures may also be vulnerable as well, but haven't been researched yet. Evidently the exploit was discovered back in May but wasn't made public until Monday to enable devs and vendors time to develop patches, which are now available
Notice how the company that was hit is using a nine year old kernel and an eleven year old version of Apache. It's amazing to me that they have let it go for that long. Apparently, though, nobody had revealed the attack vector. It's even possible it came through client machines running something else.
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