A public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called “PinTheft” has been released for a newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw that allows local attackers to escalate privileges to root on certain systems. PinTheft is a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit that targets a reference-counting bug in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) zerocopy send path and turns it […]

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