Slashdot reports a rare, but no longer so uncommon event : an incursion into the
most robust of our operating systems :
"Linux vendors are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can be exploited by local attackers to gain root access on the system. The vulnerability, which is identified as CVE-2012-0056, was discovered by Jüri Aedla and is caused by a failure of the Linux kernel to properly restrict access to the '/proc//mem' file."
.... Proving once again that physical security is actually worth something.
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