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CIFSwitch Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The CIFSwitch vulnerability in the Linux kernel allows an unprivileged user to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request mechanism, and gain root privileges by loading a malicious NSS module.

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