New Linux 'Mutagen Astronomy' security flaw impacts Red Hat and CentOS distros

guest · Sep 25, 2018

New Linux 'Mutagen Astronomy' security flaw impacts Red Hat and CentOS distros
Red Hat team provides mitigations, promises kernel updates
September 25, 2018
https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-l...rity-flaw-impacts-red-hat-and-centos-distros/

A cyber-security firm has gone public with details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code about a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that currently impacts only CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distributions.

The vulnerability's name is Mutagen Astronomy and is tracked as CVE-2018-14634. Discovered by the team at the Qualys Research Labs, this security flaw is categorized as a Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) issue.

This is a type of vulnerability that requires an attacker to have a foothold on a vulnerable system, but it's one of those security flaws that can turn a simple hack into a very bad one, as it can be used to give an intruder root access and complete control over infected systems.

Until a patch will be ready, the Red Hat security team posted basic mitigation advice on how to protect vulnerable systems until a patch would be out.
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Mrkvonic · Sep 26, 2018

Based on that name, I was expecting an invasion of some alien species.
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