Linux Kernel Patch Issued

Linux finally issued a patch for ‘privilege-escalation vulnerability’ discovered in 2005. It was stressed that the patch be installed as soon as possible.

The memory-corruption bug stems from two memory regions of the X server that grow in the opposite directions in the address space, an attribute inherited from the x86 architecture designed by Intel. Attackers can force the two regions to collide, causing critical control data to be replaced with values that allow the X server to be hijacked

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