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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE - allows any unprivileged local user to gain root access on a vulnerable Linux system - no patch available (github.com)
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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

That may be true for private machines, but having user access to a machine, yet not be allowed admin rights is not actually a rare setup in the wild (read: servers... where the actual money is, not on that boring thing sitting under your desk)