April 12, 2024, 7:51 a.m. | Ubuntu Security Team

Ubuntu Security Podcast ubuntusecuritypodcast.org

This week we cover the recent reports of a new local privilege escalation
exploit against the Linux kernel, follow-up on the xz-utils backdoor from last
week and it's the beta release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - plus we talk security
vulnerabilities in the X Server, Django, util-linux and more.

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