March 13, 2021 By Pierluigi Paganini
Three 15-year-old flaws in Linux kernel could be exploited by local attackers with basic user privileges to gain root privileges on vulnerable Linux systems.
GRIMM researchers found three vulnerabilities in the SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) component of the Linux kernel, the issues could be exploited by local attackers with basic user privileges to gain root privileges on unpatched Linux systems.
The Small Computer Systems Interface defined both a parallel I/O bus and a data protocol to connect a wide variety of peripherals (disk drives, tape drives, modems,