3 articles tagged "privilege"

• Security Alert: Ubuntu Linux kernel vulnerabilities

  Multiple buffer overflows were discovered in the Ubuntu Linux kernel and can be corrected by upgrading your system to latest kernel version.

• CVE-2008-0595: Linux dbus packages fix privilege escalation

  Havoc Pennington discovered that DBus, a simple interprocess messaging system, performs insufficient validation of security policies, which might allow local privilege escalation.

• Find out if service / server running in chrooted jail or not under Linux

  Chrooted jail allows run command or service such as http / mysql / postfix with special root directory i.e. chroot changes the root directory for application. The biggest benefit is a service that is re-rooted to another directory cannot access files outside that directory. Basically you are going to set service in sandbox. Chrooting offers [...]

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