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Techrights — The Slop-Amplified Fear of Privilege Escalation (Local, Not Remote) in Linux, the Kernel

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we are meant to assume this is no better and no worse than Microsoft intentionally putting back doors in everything, even encryption
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Linux released version 7.0.6 to complete the mitigation of Dirty Frag, a local privilege escalation vulnerability that became public earlier and that, according to reports, could facilitate root access in Linux distributions. The update includes a single patch, focused on a problem of RXRPC detected in 2019. *** Linux 7.0.6 was released as a stable version to finish mitigating Dirty Frag vulnerability. The only release change is a Hyunwoo Kim pa…

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