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Cisco Inadvertently Leaked In-House Dirty COW Exploit Code In Its Software

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 Abeerah Hashim 770 Views cisco, cisco leaked dirty cow, CVE-2016-5195, Dirty Cow, Dirty Cow exploit code, leaked, linux privilege escalation, Privilege Escalation, vulnerability

This week, Cisco released several security advisories regarding various bug fixes. It also patched two critical flaws and recommended workarounds

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Serious Vulnerability Discovered In X.Org Server Affects Major Linux and BSD Variants

October 29, 2018 Abeerah Hashim 1405 Views BSD, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, file overwrite, flaw, Linux, Linux bug, Linux distributions, Linux Distro, linux privilege escalation, linux security, linux vulnerability, local privilege escalation, Privilege Escalation, RedHat, RHEL, ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux, vulnerability, X.Org server, xorg server

An Indian researcher discovered an important local privilege escalation vulnerability that poses a security threat to most Linux distros and

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Mutagen Astronomy – Linux Vulnerability Hits CentOS, Debian, and Red Hat Distros

September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 Abeerah Hashim 1827 Views CentOS, Distro, Linux, Linux bug, Linux distributions, Linux Distro, linux privilege escalation, linux vulnerability, local privilege escalation, Mutagen Astronomy, Privilege Escalation, RedHat, vulnerability

Researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability that allegedly affects multiple Linux distros. The vulnerability named Mutagen Astronomy allows an attacker

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Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation PoC

June 26, 2014 Unallocated Author 1450 Views 3.13 privilege escalation exploit, 3.13 privilege escalation vulnerability, escalate windows privilege, linux 3.13 privilege escalation, linux privilege escalation

Exploit-db have recently released a local privilege escalation POC as shown in the code example which affects the Linux 3.13