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Researchers Discover LG Smart TV Vulnerabilities Allowing Root Access

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[ad_1] Apr 09, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / IoT Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in LG webOS running on its smart televisions that could be exploited to bypass authorization and gain root access on the devices. The findings come from Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered and reported the flaws in November 2023. The issues were…

New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros

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[ad_1] Jan 31, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Endpoint Security Malicious local attackers can obtain full root access on Linux machines by taking advantage of a newly disclosed security flaw in the GNU C library (aka glibc). Tracked as CVE-2023-6246, the heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability is rooted in glibc’s __vsyslog_internal() function, which is used by syslog() and vsyslog()…