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Linux kernel vulnerabilities closed

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“Whether the flaw can also be exploited to execute code at
kernel level by users that are logged into a system at restricted
privilege level, which was the case with several previous
null-pointer dereferencing bugs, is not mentioned in the
distributors’ and kernel developers’ descriptions. The flaw was
discovered in Linux kernel 2.6.32-rc8 and has been fixed in the
final version.”


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