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Linux Kernel SLUBStick Attack

Researchers from Graz University of Technology in Austria have published a paper that describes “a novel kernel exploitation technique elevating a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive.” The researchers successfully demonstrated the exploit against Linux kernel versions 5.19 and 6.2, both of which have reached end-of-life (EoL) in October 2022 and May 2023, respectively. More https://www.scmagazine.com/news/linux-kernel-exploitation-slubstick-can-read-and-write-memory-arbitrarily