A security expert discovered a serious five-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-8655, that affects every Linux distro. In October, the security expert Phil Oester discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel, dubbed âDirty COWâ that could be exploited by a local attacker to escalate privileges. The name âDirty COWâ is due to the fact that itâs triggered by a […]