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'Dirty Pipe' Linux bug allows an unprivileged user to overwrite data
Serious bug affects all major Linux distributions, dating back to version 5.8, and Android
A security researcher has disclosed details of a now-patched security vulnerability in Linux kernel that an attacker might take advantage of to write any data into an arbitrary file and elevate pri...
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