Rampant Root Takeovers Threaten Ubuntu Linux Cloud Workloads
Two Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu Linux Expose 40% of Cloud Workloads to Attackers The “GameOverlay” Flaws Researchers from cloud security firm Wiz have discovered two vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu implementation of the OverlayFS module. These flaws, tracked as CVE-2023-2640 and CVE-2023-32629 and named “GameOverlay” by the researchers, allow attackers to execute code with root privileges on…