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Move over, PrintNightmare. Microsoft has another privilege-escalation hole in Windows that can be potentially exploited by rogue users and malware to gain admin-level powers.
Meanwhile, a make-me-root hole was found in recent Linux kernels.
Recent builds of Windows 10, and the preview of Windows 11, have a misconfigured access control list (ACL) for the Security Account Manager (SAM), SYSTEM, and SECURITY registry hive files.
As a result of this blunder, non-administrative users may read these databases, if a VSS shadow copy of the system drive is present, and potentially use their contents to gain elevated privileges. According to a US-CERT advisory, the issue appears to affect Windows 10 build 1809 and newer.
Microsoft patch for PrintNightmare vulnerability fails to fix critical security flaw
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Linux-based operating systems are generally recognized as being far more secure than the likes of Windows and macOS but that s not to say they re without their flaws. Illustrating precisely this is the discovery of no fewer than three vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that could be exploited to gain root access to a system.