Linux privilege vulnerability

[FG-administator]

Not a thing that happens often in the Linux world.

By the look of it, for the next few days as patches are applied server by server, anyone who has a user shell login on an affected Linux workstation or server can get root access, and at a guess most 64-bit Linux workstations and servers are affected. This really isn't meant to happen.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5703758

As far as I can tell there are no vanilla Slackware machines affected because the bug was introduced into the Linux kernel only after the most recent stock Slackware kernel was prepared, though oddly the patch has been issued for Slackware 13.37 and 14.0 anyway.

Still - heads up those who need to make changes.

[Wandrin]

That's very surprising. Thanks for the heads up.