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Qualys researchers have unearthed a serious privilege escalation bug affecting a wide variety of Unix and Unix-based operating systems, and has been working with vendors to develop patches since...

Linux and other Unix-like operating systems are affected by a type of vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker for root privilege escalation, Qualys warned on Monday. read more

Security researchers have discovered more than a decade-old vulnerability in several Unix-based operating systems — including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris — which can be exploited...

“Stack Clash” poses threat to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and other OSes.

“Stack Clash” poses threat to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and other OSes.




http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/07/unix_time_zone_database_destroyed/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 7th October 2011