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    You may have noticed Linux mentioned in the weekly NCAS vulnerability lists.

     
    Patches Available for Linux Sudo Vulnerability
    by Michael Mimoso | May 31, 2017

    Red Hat, Debian and other Linux distributions yesterday pushed out patches for a high-severity vulnerability in Sudo that could be abused by a local attacker to gain root privileges.

    Sudo is a program for Linux and UNIX systems that allows standard users to run specific commands as a superuser, such as adding users or performing system updates.

     
    Read more about this on threatpost.com, The Kaspersky Lab’s security news service.

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