Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Found in OpenBSD
Qualys Research Labs discovered a local privilege escalation vulnerability in OpenBSD’s dynamic loader in December 2019. They found vulnerabilities in OpenBSD 6.5 and OpenBSD 6.6 versions. In their analysis, they discovered that the vulnerability could allow local users or malicious software to gain full root privileges, and is exploitable during the default installation process. Users can restore this vulnerability by installing patches for OpenBSD 6.5 and OpenBSD 6.6 versions.
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Read this article to learn more about the local privilege escalation vulnerability found in the OpenBSD’s dynamic loader for versions 6.5 and 6.6.
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