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ChkRootkit vulnerability - privilege escalation

ChkRootkit vulnerability – privilege escalation

ChkRootkit is a rootkit detector, its job being to detect malicious software that could grant an unprivileged user, even a guest, full access to a machine. Imagine a website visitor taking control not only on the visited website, but also on the entire server hosting that specific website and most probably many other services.

Thomas Stangner reporteda security flaw in the ChkRootkit detector,…

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