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901 High-Severity Vulnerability In Linux Caused By a Single Errant Character

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/09/2026 16:00 EDT

High-Severity Vulnerability In Linux Caused By a Single Errant Character

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that's able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don't often see: a single errant character inside the kernel. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23111, is located in nf_tables, a subsystem of the Linux kernel that provides packet filtering capabilities. It's used to manage firewall rules and replaces older subsystems such as iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and e

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