The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a critical Linux kernel vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning that threat actors are actively leveraging the security vulnerability in ransomware campaigns targeting organizations worldwide.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1086, represents a significant threat to Linux-based systems and requires immediate attention from cybersecurity teams.
CVE-2024-1086 is a use-after-free vulnerability affecting the netfilter: nf_tables component within the Linux kernel.
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