[Link] New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions
1 message · started by Devi Garcia on Jan 10, 2019
[Link] New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions
From Devi Garcia · Jan 10, 2019
Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating systems, that could allow unprivileged local attackers or malicious programs to gain root access on the targeted systems.
The vulnerabilities, assigned as CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, and CVE-2018-16866, actually resides in the "systemd-journald" service that collects information from different sources and creates event logs by logging information in the journal.
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https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/linux-systemd-exploit.html