CISA has issued an urgent alert about a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2024-1086. This vulnerability, hidden within the netfilter: nf_tables component, allows local attackers to escalate their privileges and potentially deploy ransomware, which could severely disrupt enterprise systems worldwide.

This vulnerability, hidden within the netfilter: nf_tables component, allows local attackers to escalate their privileges and potentially deploy ransomware, which could severely disrupt enterprise systems worldwide.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Unfortunately, it’s not that simple, because attacks often involve “exploit chains”. In this case, an attacker would use a different vulnerability to gain code execution capability, and then use that capability to exploit this vulnerability.

    Update your systems, folks.