19-Year-Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Root Access
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A SpaceX engineer has used artificial intelligence to detect a 19-year failure in the Linux kernel that allows a local attacker to scale privileges up to root in a dozen distributions, including CentOS, Rocky Linux and Kali. The researcher, Asim Manizada, did not manually review lines of code: he built an AI frame that generates semantic graphs of kernel objects and travels through them to locate inconsistencies between what creates a component …
19-Year-Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Root Access
Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been released for the CIFSwitch flaw, which allows low-privileged users to escalate to root on vulnerable Linux systems. The post 19-Year-Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Root Access appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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