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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software since 2000

Serious flaws discovered in Linux

Monday February 23, 2004
Last week three new vulnerabilities were discovered in the latest Linux kernel which could allow an attacker to elevate their privileges on the machine and execute programs as the root administrator. Net security guide Tony Bradley discusses the security strengths - and weaknesses - of open source software.

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