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OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root

BACKGROUND
3 SIGNALSFIRST DETECTED 8 July 2026
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How the story developed
16 Oct
Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD
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13 Apr
Stealthy RCE on Hardened Linux: Noexec and Userland Execution PoC

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19 May
OpenBSD 7.9 Released

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30 Aug
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

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7 Apr
Anthropic Mythos identifies long-overlooked 27-Year critical bug in OpenBSD’s TCP selective acknowledgement (SACK) implementation

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15 Jul
TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

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21 May
9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS

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13 May
Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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19 May
DirtyDecrypt PoC Released for Linux Kernel CVE-2026-31635 LPE Vulnerability

Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has now been released for a recently patched security flaw in the Linux kernel that could allow for local privilege escalation (LPE). Dubbed

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