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A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on most major Linux distros

Jan 27, 2022 at 7:56am
Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news—a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running most major distributions of the open source operating system.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/a-bug-lurking-for-12-years-gives-attackers-root-on-every-major-linux-distro/
Jan 27, 2022 at 10:55am
So.....*nix is as long-term vulnerable as Windows, with attack vectors unknown for years. Except by hackers.
Jan 27, 2022 at 11:41pm
nothing new here. The people that preach on the problems of windows as if everything else were perfect are largely living in 1995. They are all full of holes, and they all try reasonably hard to plug them when found.
Jan 28, 2022 at 10:22am
Speaking of security holes, Minnesota U. was recently banned from submitting Linux kernel patches.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source
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