CISA has issued an urgent alert about a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2024-1086. This vulnerability, hidden within the netfilter: nf_tables component, allows local attackers to escalate their privileges and potentially deploy ransomware, which could severely disrupt enterprise systems worldwide.

This vulnerability, hidden within the netfilter: nf_tables component, allows local attackers to escalate their privileges and potentially deploy ransomware, which could severely disrupt enterprise systems worldwide.

  • dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Explain how a use after free could occur in safe rust, because to my knowledge, that is exactly the kind of thing rust does protect against.

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Easy. Do some specific incantation that barely looks like it follows rust syntax that is specifically made to exploit a bug in the rust compiler.