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Linux had a killer flaw for 11 years and no one noticed

Linux had a killer flaw for 11 years and no one noticed

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Linux had a killer flaw for 11 years and no one noticed

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23rd March 2017, 17:24	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,541	Linux had a killer flaw for 11 years and no one noticed One of the key advantages of Open sauce software is that it is supposed to be easier to spot and fix software flaws, however Linux has had a local privilege escalation flaw for 11 years and no-one has noticed. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-6074, is over 11 years old and was likely introduced in 2005 when the Linux kernel gained support for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP). It was discovered last week and was patched by the kernel developers on Friday. http://www.techeye.net/news/linux-ha...no-one-noticed

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