Almost 40% of Ubuntu users vulnerable to new privilege elevation flaws

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Almost 40% of Ubuntu users vulnerable to new privilege elevation flaws
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CVE-2023-2640 and CVE-2023-32629 if you don't fancy spending an age clicking Object to all the 'legitimate interest' cookie shit.

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CVE-2023-2640

Needs a user account on the system (even unprivledged accounts) via overlayfs

Overlayfs allows one, usually read-write, directory tree to be overlaid onto another, read-only directory tree. All modifications go to the upper, writable layer. This type of mechanism is most often used for live CDs but there is a wide variety of other uses.

Is the end of this headline "because they haven't updated in 3 years"?

In this case, it's more like the opposite. People testing the cutting edge versions of Ubuntu are the ones impacted.

Couldn’t find whether this even impacts LTS builds. Either way, seems like patching should resolve the issue

LTS uses the 5.15 Linux kernel (by default). This vulnerability impacts 6.2.

@leo what’s the solution, is it just the normal apt update/upgrade or something more complicated? And is it possible to know if a machine has suffered such attack at all?

According to the Ubuntu bulletin, a simple update is sufficient.

The Wiz announcement didn't really go into specifics, so not sure other than normal user auditing.

Needs a user account on the system (even unprivledged accounts) via overlayfs

Overlayfs allows one, usually read-write, directory tree to be overlaid onto another, read-only directory tree. All modifications go to the upper, writable layer. This type of mechanism is most often used for live CDs but there is a wide variety of other uses.