{"id":8956,"date":"2021-07-22T11:46:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:26:20","slug":"linux-security-hole-capable-of-taking-over-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/linux-security-hole-capable-of-taking-over-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Security Hole Capable Of Taking Over Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second security hole has been discovered in the Linux kernel&#8217;s file system which allows any user to take over a computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This security hole is called Sequoia and it is being designated CVE-2021-33909.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week the Linux systemd vulnerability was found which could knock out all systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Qualys Research Team found the error in the filesystem and also discovered a size_ t-to-int type conversion vulnerability in the Linux kernel&#8217;s filesystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only can Sequoia be used against most Linux distributions in their default configurations, but it can also be abused by any unprivileged user to gain root privileges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although it is a major security threat, there are patches that can prevent it from attacking systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.13x before 5.13.4 patches can be used.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/patch-now-linux-file-system-security-hole-dubbed-sequoia-can-take-over-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second security hole has been discovered in the Linux kernel&#8217;s file system which allows any user to take over a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}