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Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old ‘needrestart’ flaw that gives root
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Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old ‘needrestart’ flaw that gives root

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Andy Stern
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Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04.

First seen on bleepingcomputer.com

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