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Seven year-old Linux vulnerability now patched

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An old vulnerability was just discovered in the Linux kernel, 
potentially allowing hackers to gain privilege escalation, or cause a 
denial of service. The vulnerability was quickly fixed and there have 
been no signs of it in the wild, although that does not necessarily 
mean it went unnoticed. According to Positive Technologies expert 
Alexander Popov, the CVE-2017-2636 vulnerability is seven years old and 
has affected the majority of popular Linux distributions, including 
RHEL 6/7, Fedora, SuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. Alexander Popov found a 
"race condition in the n_hdlc driver that leads to double-freeing of 
kernel memory, which can be exploited... [Continue Reading]

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