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A Sudo vulnerability has been found – and quickly patched – that enabled a local attacker to gain root privileges. The issue, known as CVE-2017-1000367, made it possible for malicious users to run bash commands to overwrite files – even root-owned data. The security researchers from Qualys revealed that, “We discovered a vulnerability in Sudo’s get_process_ttyname() for Linux: this function opens “/proc/ [pid]/stat” (man proc) and reads the device number of the tty from field 7 (tty_nr)”. Red Hat, Debian and other distros – especially ones with SELinux enabled, have been patched. To find out more read the security advisory at http://bit.ly/2rry8GJ. There are now 3,500 Linux games on Steam, the popular store (and DRM enabler) for PC games. These titles range from quirky indie games such as Terrari, to blockbuster games like Total War: Warhammer and Metro2033. With a huge library that’s constantly growing – and bear in mind this is only games available in Steam, other methods of buying games are available – it’s never been better to become a Linux gamer, or to convince PC gamers to dump Windows. To see the full list, head to http://store.steampowered.com/ search/?category1=998&os=linux. Elsewhere we’ve talked about getting Linux to work on Android devices, but what about the reverse (sort of)? Anbox ( https://anbox.io) – also known as Android in a Box, enables you to operate Android apps within Linux. It does this by running Android apps in a container, while integrating them as if they were a native application. This potentially opens up Linux to a huge range of apps, and with the launch of Android
O coming later this year, even more functionality should be made available to Linux machines. It’s early days so far for the software, but it’s extremely promising. Watch this space!