Local privilege escalation in Lix and Nix
stebalien
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May 04, 2026
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stebalien
Nix and Lix daemon implementations are affected by buffer overflows vulnerabilities that allow a local attacker to gain arbitrary code execution as the daemon user (root in multi-user installations).