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Linux kernel gets a fix for a flaw that enabled attackers to escape VMs

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The Linux kernel’s networking stack was found vulnerable to a guest-to-host escape attack , in which an attacker operating inside a virtual machine (VM) could cross the isolation boundary and access the underlying host.

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