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Recent Examples of unprivileged
Most of the vulnerabilities outlined in this new Nvidia security advisory would appear to be in the user layer mode of the GPU display driver, and successful exploitation would allow an unprivileged attacker to cause what’s known as an out-of-bounds read leading to the impacts already mentioned.
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
It’s folks who are unprivileged who will be forced to resort to unsafe methods of avoiding pregnancy or terminating pregnancy.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
The vulnerability lets an unprivileged user overwrite data that is supposed to be read-only, which can lead to additional privilege escalation.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022
Judge David Carter of the District Court for the Central District of California ordered Eastman to begin reviewing at least 1,500 pages per business day starting on Friday, and immediately transfer any unprivileged documents to the committee.
—Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
Who is really the fraud, the empty-headed playboy who gets by on connections and unearned income, or the unprivileged striver?
—Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
However, modern processors come with a power meter built-in and allow unprivileged users to read out its measurements from software.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
Other brokers within the firm are working to ensure that unprivileged children in the area get something in their stockings this year.
—Amanda Molitor, The Denver Post, 21 Nov. 2019
The service may be started or stopped by unprivileged users.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
Davey Winder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
It’s folks who are unprivileged who will be forced to resort to unsafe methods of avoiding pregnancy or terminating pregnancy.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
The vulnerability lets an unprivileged user overwrite data that is supposed to be read-only, which can lead to additional privilege escalation.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022
Judge David Carter of the District Court for the Central District of California ordered Eastman to begin reviewing at least 1,500 pages per business day starting on Friday, and immediately transfer any unprivileged documents to the committee.
—Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
Who is really the fraud, the empty-headed playboy who gets by on connections and unearned income, or the unprivileged striver?
—Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
However, modern processors come with a power meter built-in and allow unprivileged users to read out its measurements from software.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
Other brokers within the firm are working to ensure that unprivileged children in the area get something in their stockings this year.
—Amanda Molitor, The Denver Post, 21 Nov. 2019
The service may be started or stopped by unprivileged users.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprivileged
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In The Social Network’s famous opening scene, Jesse Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg is dumped by a Boston University student, played by Rooney Mara, who can’t stand his needy obsession with Harvard’s final clubs.Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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That changed earlier this year, when USA TODAY began asking for records showing the department’s efforts to reach needy communities.Austin Fast, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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Lori Vallow Daybell is represented by the Office of the Legal Defender, which serves indigent Maricopa County defendants.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
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The law at issue, known as EMTALA, was enacted in 1986 largely to prevent hospitals from turning away uninsured and indigent patients, particularly women in labor.Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 27 June 2024
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More than any of the wide-ranging jobs Miranda has taken on in the past five years, The Warriors, a classic yarn about underprivileged New Yorkers weathering an arduous power struggle, is catnip for the 44-year-old Pulitzer Prize–winning polymath.Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
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The evening benefitted the Entrepreneurial Scotland Foundation, a Scottish scholarship charity that provides internship opportunities for adult college students, mostly from underprivileged backgrounds.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Unfortunately, in recent years, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has embraced and promoted an impoverished worldview regarding gender and sexuality.Enquirer staff, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2024
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On an international level, too..., one country’s climate response can easily leave another country impoverished, either through neglect, foolishness or outright malevolence.Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
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These funding projects went toward various infrastructure needs, and 42 percent of the $4.2 billion worth of funding went to disadvantaged communities, following through on President Joe Biden's Justice40 Initiative.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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The money would come from funds that had been granted to Habitat for Humanity for development of affordable, zero-energy homes on vacant lots in disadvantaged communities, according to the legislation.Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
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Even the Kremlin’s own human rights council had denounced the charges as unwarranted, adding its voice to a chorus of support for Prokopyeva in what became a battle of wills between an impecunious local reporter and Russia’s powerful security apparatus.Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2020
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His half-Danish father, Prince Andrew, second in line to the Greek throne, was sentenced to death after the army was defeated in Smyrna by the Turks, saved only by the intervention of George V. In 1930, after eight years of impecunious exile in Paris, the family dispersed.Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
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Along with invisible, the assistant can also be penniless, powerless and a vulnerable target.Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
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This time, inspiration came from English writer H.G. Wells, whose sci-fi novel The Invisible Man — about a penniless researcher whose experiments in invisibility unlock a sadistic side to his personality — has become one of the all-time genre greats.Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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The most destitute Syrians are hard to locate, and the wealthiest Syrians neither need UNHCR benefits nor live in the low-income areas where refugees concentrate.Daniel Corstange, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2016
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With little effort, Israel can continue to control the flow of international aid to Gaza’s destitute population and use disproportionate and overwhelming force against any nascent glimmer of resistance.Robert Grenier, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Unprivileged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprivileged. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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