Users could gain root privilege through three flaws sitting in Linux kernel

News Desk March 12, 2021

Entrance to the Red Hat headquarters. The company’s distributions of Linux kernels appear to be particularly susceptible to vulnerabilities unearthed recently. (Red Hat)

Three recently unearthed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, located in the iSCSI module used for accessing shared data storage facilities, could allow root privileges to anyone with a user account.

The trio of flaws – CVE-2021-27363,…