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Stories about: remote attack

Critical Vulnerability Silently Patched in Linux Kernel A highly dangerous privilege escalation vulnerability, which can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as root from any GUI application, has been patched in the Linux kernel.The flaw was discovered by Rafal Wojtczuk, principal researcher at Invisible Things Lab (ITL), a security research company based in Poland... 18 August 2010 06:15 GMT Kaspersky Antivirus Crash Vulnerable A recent security report from Maksymilian Arciemowicz presented on the SecurityReason website details how remote users could crash PCs running Kaspersky-owned products. Pointing the antivirus to parse a URL, the users' CPU can be tricked to consume excessive resources and eventually crash. The vulnerability aff... 21 August 2009 10:02 GMT