An error in the workings of Linux kernel versions 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1 can give local users access to root privileges.
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and the maintainer of its development kernel, appealed on Saturday for people to test the latest release candidate of the Linux kernel.
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