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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's a privilege escalation.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1086 and carrying a severity rating of 7.8 out of a possible 10, allows people who have already gained a foothold inside an affected system to escalate their system privileges. It’s the result of a use-after-free error, a class of vulnerability that occurs in software written in the C and C++ languages when a process continues to access a memory location after it has been freed or deallocated. Use-after-free vulnerabilities can result in remote code or privilege escalation.

[–] JonnyRobbie 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

rust mentioned, lets goo

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Blazingly fast 🚀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Zero-cost abstractions!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This is why least privilege is so important. If one account is compromised it will be harder to compromise others if the original account is isolated.