Race-Condition Bugs in Ubuntu and Red Hat Tools Could Leak Sensitive Memory Data. Hackers could exploit a tool that stores crashed system data in older Linux operating systems to obtain passwords and encryption keys, warn researchers. The flaw lies in the way certain Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Fedora, handle application crashes.
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