Security Leftovers
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Three Innocuous Linux Vulnerabilities Chained to Obtain Full Root Privileges | SecurityWeek.Com
Qualys’ Threat Research Unit has shown how a new Linux vulnerability could be chained with two other apparently harmless flaws to gain full root privileges on an affected system.
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A new Linux flaw can be chained with other two bugs to gain full root privileges - Security Affairs
Qualys researchers demonstrated how to chain a new Linux flaw with two other two issues to gain full root privileges on an impacted system.
Researchers at the Qualys’ Threat Research Unit demonstrated how to chain a new Linux vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3328, with two other flaws to gain full root privileges on an affected system.
The vulnerability resides in the snap-confine function on Linux operating systems, a SUID-root program installed by default on Ubuntu.
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Employees Don’t Care About the Data Breach Pandemic
Throughout the last decade, data breaches have exploded in numbers, regularity, and severity. Consumer concerns around safety have similarly reached new highs, as they continue to bear the brunt of leaky databases and illicit cybercriminals. The security fabric of organizations is being stretched thinner than ever, but a worrying report has found that a concerning number of US employees simply don’t care.
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Government issues ‘high’ severity security alert for THESE Google users
As per the latest CERT-In security alert, multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux-based operating system designed by Google.
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NVIDIA releases GPU driver update to fix 29 security flaws
NVIDIA has released a security update for its GPU display driver for Windows, containing a fix for a high-severity flaw that threat actors can exploit to perform, among other things, code execution and privilege escalation.
The latest security update addresses 25 vulnerabilities on the Windows and Linux GPU drivers, while seven flaws are categorized as high-severity.