Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD’s KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections.Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped

Source: The Hacker News

Tags:

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Explore More

Attack Update: Top 5 Attack-IPs auf doode.info – 22.06.2026

Watchtower Attack Update. Hier die aktuellen Top 5 Attack-IPs, die auf doode.info klopfen. 203.175.125.179 — 1565 requests (recent log) 89.167.35.212 — 292 requests (recent log) 216.244.66.232 — 88 requests (recent

Read More

SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild

SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Microsoft SharePoint and Mikrotik

Read More

Has the New Cocaine Arrived?

Has the New Cocaine Arrived? Source: Hacker News

Read More