Two new vulnerabilities affecting Linux were uncovered this week that could potentially be used by malicious hackers to gain root privileges. One vulnerability arises from a flaw in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets protocol (RDS) The second vulnerability, dubbed CVE-2010-3847, derives from a bug in the library loader of the GNU C library. Patches are currently in the works, but “this is a low impact vulnerability that is only of interest to security professionals and system administrators,” Tavis Ormandy noted.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2010/10/two-linux-vulnerabilities-to-get-root.html