sanitation@lemmy.radio to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoDevastating 'Dirty Frag' exploit leaks out, gives immediate root access on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available, no warning given — Copy Fail-like vulnerability had its embargo brokenwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1214arrow-down17cross-posted to: linux@szmer.info
arrow-up1207arrow-down1external-linkDevastating 'Dirty Frag' exploit leaks out, gives immediate root access on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available, no warning given — Copy Fail-like vulnerability had its embargo brokenwww.tomshardware.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square34linkfedilinkcross-posted to: linux@szmer.info
minus-squaregrainfed@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·16 days ago“any local user can instantly get root (administrator) access on an affected box, just by running a small program” quote from the short article. So it seems home computers are safe.
minus-squareNighed@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoI thought that was refering to copyfail?
“any local user can instantly get root (administrator) access on an affected box, just by running a small program” quote from the short article. So it seems home computers are safe.
I thought that was refering to copyfail?