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The Register / 30 April 2026 / 7h ago
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
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Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…
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