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As a result, it helps maintain the security and stability of a system without needing frequent reboots.

It was introduced in 2014 and maintained as a Debian package.

Ubuntu

It was vulnerable since the day of its inception, with Ubuntu Linux version 21.04.

The five vulnerabilities in question are tracked as CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003.

Needrestarts earliest vulnerable version is 0.8, and earliest clean version is 3.8, released earlier this week.

The only prerequisite is that they have local access, either throughmalware, or compromised accounts.

One notable example is Loony Tunables, which exploited the nf_tables bug.

Therefore, it is essential users upgrade to version 3.8 or later, as soon as possible.

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