‘Dirty Sock’ Flaw in snapd Allows Root Access to Linux Servers

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The issue affects default installations of Ubuntu Server and Desktop and is likely included in many Ubuntu-like Linux distributions.

A local privilege-escalation vulnerability in Canonical’s snapd package has been uncovered, which would allow any user to obtain administrator privileges and immediate root access to affected Linux system servers.

For More Details : https://threatpost.com/dirty-sock-snapd-linux/141779/