Tag: CVE-2018-14634

Protecting against CVE-2018-14634 (Mutagen Astronomy)

There is a new exploit, rated as 7.8 severity level,  that affects major Linux distributions of RedHat Enterprise Linux, Debian 8 and CentOS named Mutagen Astronomy. Mutagen Astronomy exploits an integer overflow vulnerability in the Linux kernel and supplies root access (admin privileges) to unauthorized users on the intended server. This exploit affects Linux kernel…