[Swordmaker]

If you use Linux, or Android this is for you. . . New ZERO DAY flaw including a proof of concept exploit that hits both Linux and Android that allows escalation to ROOT. Millions of Linux users and hundreds of millions of Android devices are vulnerable. Patches are available for Linux, but not so much for Android. Red Hat Linux already has a patch to close the flaw out, and other Linux distributions are expected quickly. Google is expected to fix it in February, but many Android devices cannot be updated and are subject to the carriers for update distribution, if they do at all. In the meantime, be careful. -- PING!

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[proxy_user]

Since this is a privilege escalation attack, it can only be used by a user who already has a login, right? It is basically an internal threat from someone who is already valid on the server.

[Paladin2]

Hardware designed by 100s of thousands X software generated by millions of code monkeys. What could go wrong, go wrong, go wrong.....?

[PJBankard]

Israeli security firm Perception Point disclosed the flaw in a blog post Tuesday, but it wasn't immediately clear if the bug had been privately reported to Google, which develops the Android software.

You would think that firms would contact the affected software manufacturers before blogging. Seems dumb not to.

[r_barton]

Too many “back doors” are found in software and hardware. I think government agents have planted a lot of these things to use against U.S. and foreign computer users. Some through paying off the development company, some through maybe appealing to their “patriotism”, some through agents working in the industry. Too many found all the time to be accidental.

[ShadowAce]

Not a big deal, plus it's already been patched.