{"id":2534,"date":"2025-03-28T22:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:24:54","slug":"ubuntu-namespace-vulnerability-should-be-addressed-quickly-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=2534","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu namespace vulnerability should be addressed quickly: Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<p>Linux admins who have enabled the unprivileged user namespace restriction in their recent Ubuntu environments should take action to close three new vulnerabilities that allow a threat actor to bypass the supposed protection.<\/p>\n<p>This warning comes after researchers at Qualys found three different ways this hardening feature can, under certain circumstances, be bypassed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt needs to be addressed quickly,\u201d said Robert Beggs, CEO of Canadian incident response firm DigitalDefence, which has several Ubuntu-based applications in its portfolio, \u201cbecause it facilitates other exploits. By itself, not a major thing. But if something else comes out it can be chained to these [vulnerabilities] and cause a lot of damage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux admins who have enabled the unprivileged user namespace restriction in their recent Ubuntu environments should take action to close three new vulnerabilities that allow a threat actor to bypass the supposed protection. This warning comes after researchers at Qualys found three different ways this hardening feature can, under certain circumstances, be bypassed.\u00a0 \u201cIt needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}