18-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Allows Full System Takeover

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/07/18-year-old-linux-kernel-bug-allows-full-system-takeover/

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LorIps@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 25d

Memory safety issues continue to plague operating systems like Linux written in unsafe languages like C++.

Great that the writer has such wonderful technical expertise /s

lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org · 17 pts · 24d

lInUx iS uNsAfE!!!!!11111onememe

looks inside

requires surviving an UIF in the first place

already fixed past 6.12.

Rust copaganda

AI-assisted vuln research

Yeah... no. Just one more idiot trying to gain clicks for their linkedin profile.

ReignOfTerror@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 25d

I KNEW sudo was a bug this whole time!

Dadifer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 25d (2 replies)

I don't think English is the author's first language.

victorz@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 24d (1 reply)

C++ is their first language

Dadifer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 24d

Apparently Rust

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d

but it’s legal