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New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions
A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel, named 'CIFSwitch', allows attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions and abuse the kernel's key request mechanism to gain root privileges on multiple distributions.
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