08 August 2026 - 07:32
Category: IT Fail
Another Flaw Old Enough To Vote.
An 18-year-old Linux SCTP flaw lets local users escape containers to get root access. Naturally, it took nearly two decades for anyone to notice.
Source: The Hacker News
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Why do we even bother pretending Linux is invincible when an 18-year-old SCTP protocol bug has been silently letting local attackers escape containers and grab root privileges this entire time? This marvellous oversight hit Linux kernel users who foolishly believed their container boundaries were actually secure. To protect our weary infrastructure from this ancient nightmare, we must deploy kernel updates 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101, or 6.6.148, assuming anyone actually patches.
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#PatchYourKernel