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64-bit Linux kernel exploit in the wild, allows local user root escalation
If you're running a 64-bit Linux kernel, update it now.
There's a new local root exploit, and it seems like Ksplice has yet again managed to get their advertisement fix onto the front page of Slashdot. Normally such an arcane bug wouldn't be an issue, but the example exploit leaves an open backdoor even after the bug has been patched -- lovely.
It's an escalation exploit, so a user still ...
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A decade-old backdoor in Apple's QuickTime media player allows someone to completely take over or run malicious code on a Windows 7 machine, according to The Register. The weird backdoor is an unused parameter called "
_Marshaled_pUnk," which has been around since 2001, and was originally used to draw contents in the current QuickTime window without opening a new one. The function is gone now, but ...
