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SUID needs to go

SUID needs to go

Posted Apr 30, 2026 8:58 UTC (Thu) by chris_se (subscriber, #99706)
In reply to: SUID needs to go by bluca
Parent article: A security bug in AEAD sockets

It's not just SUID though, from reading through the exploit - you could also replace the cached page of /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow, for example - the SUID variant was just the easiest possible way to exploit this.


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