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Critical Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu’s needrestart Utility Expose Servers to Root Access
The needrestart utility, a critical component of Ubuntu Server systems, has been found to contain multiple severe Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities. Identified by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), these vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003) allow unprivileged users to gain full root access without user interaction. Notably, these vulnerabilities have been present […]
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