{"id":4167,"date":"2016-12-08T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2016-12-08T14:40:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:40:57","slug":"5-year-old-linux-kernel-local-privilege-escalation-flaw-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/12\/08\/5-year-old-linux-kernel-local-privilege-escalation-flaw-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Flaw Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/12\/linux-kernel-local-root-exploit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click for Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresh off the heals of another Linux vulnerability discovered about a month ago, another flaw has been discovered. \u00a0 CVE-2016-8655 is a flaw that could allow a local user to gain root access privileges to the Linux operating system. \u00a0This flaw effects almost every Linux distribution that is available.<\/p>\n<p>A patch was released last week, so users are encouraged to patch their Linux distributions.<\/p>\n<p>I always find Linux flaws to be of particular interest. \u00a0I think Linux has that inherent stigma that it&#8217;s for &#8220;techies&#8221; and you have to be super technical to get it to work. \u00a0 And, I think part of that is true, Linux is probably more prevalent among the &#8220;techie&#8221; users. \u00a0 So, it always amazes me that flaws, like the one above are found 5 years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for Article Fresh off the heals of another Linux vulnerability discovered about a month ago, another flaw has been discovered. \u00a0 CVE-2016-8655 is a flaw that could allow a local user to gain root access privileges to the Linux operating system. \u00a0This flaw effects almost every Linux distribution that is available. A patch was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12789,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","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\/12789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}