đź”´ July 28's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 418
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Ubuntu Vulnerabilities Impact 40% of Ubuntu Users
Cybersecurity researchers at WIS have disclosed two high severity security flaws in the Ubuntu kernel that could pave the way for local privilege escalation attacks. The vulnerabilities tracked as CVE 2023 32629 and 2640 and dubbed game overlay are present in a module called overlay FS. They arise as a result of inadequate permission checks in certain scenarios, enabling a local attacker to gain elevated privileges with security researchers Sagi Tzadzik and sheer Tamari said quote, the impacted Ubuntu versions are prevalent in the cloud as they serve as the default operating systems for multiple cloud service providers.
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