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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackay

Easy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux PCs at risk

October 23, 2016 by Brent Easley 2 Comments

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3133923/security/easy-to-exploit-rooting-flaw-puts-linux-computers-at-risk.html

I thought this would be an interesting article to post because we used these tools in our virtual machines.  The maintainers of the Linux distributions are patching a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a major risk to the servers, desktops and other devices that use the operating system.  The vulnerability has been named the Dirty Cow, it allows an attacker to gain to a limited user account to get root privileges and control the system.

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  1. Mauchel Barthelemy says

    October 23, 2016 at 12:02 pm

    This rooting flaw is definitely a tough one for Linux users. Besides us using in virtual environment, many large organizations deploy Linux servers to run critical web, applications, databases, and so on.
    Great article and thanks for sharing.

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    • Brent Easley says

      October 23, 2016 at 1:14 pm

      Thank you. I saw this article and I said to myself we can all relate to this.

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