CISA Warns of Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks to Deploy Ransomware

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert about a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2024-1086. This vulnerability, hidden within the netfilter: nf_tables component, allows local attackers to escalate their privileges and potentially deploy ransomware, which could severely disrupt enterprise systems worldwide. First disclosed earlier this […]

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