Linux vulnerable to privilege escalation

6 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/15/advanced_linux_sound_architecture_vulnerable_to_privilege_escalation/

An advisory from Cisco issued last Friday, October 13th, gave us the heads-up on a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA).

The bug is designated CVE-2017-15265, but its Mitre entry was still marked “reserved” at the time of writing. Cisco, however, had here's what Switchzilla this to say about it before release: