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Security Researchers At Red Hat And Google Warn Of Serious Linux Skeleton Key Vulnerability

???Essentially, through this flaw, attackers could remotely crash or even force the execution of malicious code on machines without the knowledge of the end user,??? according to Red Hat’s security blog written by Gunnar Hellekson, Red Hat director of product management and Josh Bressers, Red Hat senior product manager for security. Red Hat rated the potential impact as Critical impact.”

When the vulnerability was unveiled, it seemed as though control of the DNS server would be required to exploit it. Now, the same researchers are joined by Dan Kaminsky, Chief Scientist of White Ops and others to show that the bug can actually be exploited independently of the DNS server, making it a much more severe bug than originally believed.

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