Over 40% of Ubuntu Users Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation Flaw

According to reports, a privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in Ubuntu systems within the OverlayFS module. OverlayFS is a Linux filesystem that has been widely used in containers. OverlayFS allows the deployment of dynamic filesystems with respect to the pre-built images. However, vulnerable versions of the Ubuntu Operating system have been the default systems […]

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