A total of five vulnerabilities that could lead to local privilege escalation were recently identified and fixed in the Linux kernel. Identified by Positive Technologies security researcher Alexander Popov, the high severity bugs resided in the virtual socket implementation of the Linux kernel. read more SecurityWeek RSS Feed
Experts found five vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2021-26708, that could lead to local privilege escalation. Positive Technologies researcher Alexander Popov found five high severity vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that could lead to local privilege escalation. The Linux kernel vulnerabilities are race conditions that reside in AF_VSOCK implementation, they were implicitly introduced in November […]
Symantec fixed a local privilege escalation security flaw affecting all Symantec Endpoint Protection software versions prior to 14.2 RU2, and allowing attackers to escalate privileges on compromised devices and execute malicious code using SYSTEM privileges. […] BleepingComputer
Pronestor Health Monitoring versions prior to 8.1.12.0 suffer from a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to weak file permissions. Packet Storm