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CISA warns of attackers exploiting Linux flaw with PoC exploit
CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies about attackers targeting a high-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s OverlayFS subsystem that allows them to gain root privileges. This local privilege escalation security flaw (CVE-2023-0386) is caused by a Linux kernel improper ownership management weakness and was patched in January 2023 and publicly disclosed two months later. Multiple proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits […]
New Ubuntu Linux security bypasses require manual mitigations
Three security bypasses have been discovered in Ubuntu Linux’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions, which could be enable a local attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in kernel components. The issues allow local unprivileged users to create user namespaces with full administrative capabilities and impact Ubuntu versions 23.10, where unprivileged user namespaces restrictions are enabled, and 24.04 which has […]
Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old ‘needrestart’ flaw that gives root
Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04. The flaws were discovered by Qualys and are tracked as CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003. They were introduced in needrestart version 0.8, released in April 2014, and fixed only […]
Linux Mint 22 lands with improved language and hardware support
Codenamed “Wilma” and to be supported until 2029, Linux Mint 22 comes with multiple software updates, including the Linux kernel 6.8, themes with GTK4 support alongside multiple visual changes across the entire system, HiDPI in the boot sequence, Plymouth, and Slick-Greeter. Hexchat has been replaced with the Matrix chat network. Available since 2006, Linux Mint […]
Linux Mint 22 beta released with Cinnamon 6.2 desktop based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
The Linux Mint development team has released the beta version of Linux Mint 22 for download, which for the first time is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and comes with the Linux 6.8 kernel. In addition to the updated Cinnamon 6.2 desktop, MATE 1.26 and Xfce 4.18 are also available. Version 22 (code-named “Wilma”) of Linux […]