Another day, another Linux vuln.
This is totally hilarious!
In fact, the next person to mention Windows and vuln in the same sentence, talking about Windows being more vulnerable than Linux will be regarded by Yours Truly as a blithering idiot!
According to the discoverers of the vuln, VSR Security,
Because kernel functions responsible for copying data between kernel and user space failed to verify that a user-provided address actually resided in the user segment, a local attacker could issue specially crafted socket function calls to write arbitrary values into kernel memory. By leveraging this capability, it is possible for unprivileged users to escalate privileges to root.
There you have it.
Unbreakable Linux?
Gimmie a freakin’ break!
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