Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux

Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by perlgeek on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:47AM (#50377623)

Rust eliminates some bug classes, but we don't even know yet how many of these vulns would've been prevented by using Rust.

It's also possible that we'd need even more architectural changes to avoid such bugs.

The idea of a microkernel suddenly becomes more appealing...

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by saagarjha on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:54AM (#50379079)

We have a pretty good idea of this actually, people have been classifying bugs into memory safety issues, etc for a while even pre-AI.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by klooney on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:32AM (#50380379)

It's worth checking in on the vulns for uutils- lots of stuff! Interacting with the world outside of the compiler has lots of details. No use after frees afaik though.

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