Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution
eyalitki
15 points
2 comments
April 30, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
eyalitki
The presented LPE vulnerability was gradually introduced to the Linux Kernel through refactors and optimizations, each commit making sense on its own. The vulnerability itself was exploitable since 2017 (!) and also doubles as a container escape.
eyalitki
Dup of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952181