CISA has issued an urgent alert about a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2024-1086. This vulnerability, hidden within the netfilter: nf_tables component, allows local attackers to escalate their privileges and potentially deploy ransomware, which could severely disrupt enterprise systems worldwide.

This vulnerability, hidden within the netfilter: nf_tables component, allows local attackers to escalate their privileges and potentially deploy ransomware, which could severely disrupt enterprise systems worldwide.

  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I read: Microsoft started to feel threatened and paid black hats to exploit vulnerabilities in wares that people have recently learned are far superior to their goddamned surveillance garbage.