Daily News Stuff 10 June 2026 (opens in new tab)

Ununambiguous Edition Top Story We haven't had a critical local privilege escalation bug in Linux for at least... What's the time now? (Ars Technica) Today's little surprise package comes courtesy of an unexpected exclamation mark in the source code for the Netfilter module that handles firewall tasks resulting in a use-after-free bug that can pretty reliably be tricked into granting an unprivileged user administrator access to the entire system. Might break shared-kernel containers too; not ...