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Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old 'needrestart' flaw that gives root (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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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.

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[–] phanto 1 points 3 months ago

Ugh. The realization that 21.04 was actually three and a half years ago has me a bit depressed...