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[HackerNews] "As Nasty as Dirty Pipe" — 8 Year Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered #1644

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Details of an eight-year-old security vulnerability in the Linux kernel have emerged that the researchers say is "as nasty as Dirty Pipe." Dubbed DirtyCred by a group of academics from Northwestern University, the security weakness exploits a previously unknown flaw (CVE-2022-2588) to escalate privileges to the maximum level. "DirtyCred is a kernel exploitation concept that swaps unprivileged

https://thehackernews.com/2022/08/as-nasty-as-dirty-pipe-8-year-old-linux.html

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