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Nine-Year-Old Zero-Day Flaw in Linux Kernel Discovered by AI-Equipped Security Researcher

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ATT&CK techniques detected

2 predictions
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
79%
“deterministic, controlled four - byte write into the page cache of any readable file on the system. exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain root access to the linux kernel of a machine for all linux distributions shipped since 2017. while it requires no networ…”
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
73%
“nine - year - old zero - day flaw in linux kernel discovered by ai - equipped security researcher a new high - security zero - day vulnerability that has lurked in the linux kernel since 2017 has just been found with the help of ai. this nine - year - old flaw, dubbed ‘ copy fail…”

Summary

A researcher from offensive security firm Theori has found a nine-year-old flaw in the Linux kernel with the help of AI