Linux secure networking security bug found and fixed

Posted by bob on Apr 1, 2022 9:35 AM EDT
ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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Nothing is quite as vexing as a security hole in a security program. Xiaochen Zou, a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside, went looking for bugs in Linux and found a whopper. This vulnerability, CVE-2022-27666, in IPSec's esp6 (Encapsulating Security Payload) crypto module can be abused for local privilege escalation.

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