A high-severity Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-72018, lets a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges escalate to root. This exploitation involves an out-of-bounds write in the Shared Memory Communications Direct (SMC-D) DIBS loopback implementation. Researchers at XBOW discovered and demonstrated the flaw, creating a local privilege escalation proof of concept using a constrained 16-byte zero-write […]

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