After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

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Dirty Frag is a newly disclosed Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting kernel networking and ...

Microsoft today released pre-release builds of Windows 11 to the Beta, Experimental, and Experimental Beta channels.

It's always the one you least expect.

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