{"id":122,"date":"2008-02-10T12:39:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T20:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cubist.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/02\/10\/local-root-exploit-for-linux-26-discovered\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T12:39:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T20:39:25","slug":"local-root-exploit-for-linux-26-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/02\/10\/local-root-exploit-for-linux-26-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Root Exploit for Linux 2.6 Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new vulnerability has been discovered in the 2.6 Linux kernel that allows a local user to obtain a root shell. The bug description was posted within the last 24 hours, and includes exploit code that works on a large number of Linux installations, running kernels version 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1.<\/p>\n<p>Slashdot article <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=08\/02\/10\/2011257\">here<\/a> and bug reports <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=464953\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/linux-source-2.6.22\/+bug\/190587\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new vulnerability has been discovered in the 2.6 Linux kernel that allows a local user to obtain a root shell. The bug description was posted within the last 24 hours, and includes exploit code that works on a large &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/02\/10\/local-root-exploit-for-linux-26-discovered\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}