{"id":3729,"date":"2016-10-23T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:29:22","slug":"easy-to-exploit-rooting-flaw-puts-linux-pcs-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/10\/23\/easy-to-exploit-rooting-flaw-puts-linux-pcs-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux PCs at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3133923\/security\/easy-to-exploit-rooting-flaw-puts-linux-computers-at-risk.html\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3133923\/security\/easy-to-exploit-rooting-flaw-puts-linux-computers-at-risk.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought this would be an interesting article to post because we used these tools in our virtual machines. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0The vulnerability has been named the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722304],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-08-it-services-quality","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}