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Faculty of Science and Information Technology => Recent Technologies and Trends in Software Engineering => Software Engineering => Cyber and Software Security => Topic started by: maruf.swe on March 29, 2019, 01:10:55 AM

Title: ‘Dirty Sock’ Flaw in snapd Allows Root Access to Linux Servers
Post by: maruf.swe on March 29, 2019, 01:10:55 AM
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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/ (https://threatpost.com/dirty-sock-snapd-linux/141779/)