Canonical has updated Ubuntu with patches for the needrestart package. Qualys recently found a vulnerability which could give attackers root privileges.
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A curious Microsoft employee has saved the world from a potential global meltdown as several Linux distros were found vulnerable to an XZ backdoor tracked under CVE-2024-3094 (CVSS score of 10.0).
An LPE security vulnerability under the ID CVE-2021-4034 was found by Linux security researchers at Qualys. The bug has been present for 12+ years and almost every major Linux distro is vulnerable.
The security firm Qualys claims that the market share of PCs that still use Windows XP among enterprise customers has dropped below 10 percent for the first time.
