9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros
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A newly discovered security vulnerability in the Linux kernel threatens systems such as Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora. Local attackers can gain root rights. Security analysts of IT security company Qualys have revealed a serious vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected over a period of nine years. The security vulnerability is listed under the CVE-2026-46333 identifier and has a CVSS value of 5.5. Despite the moderate classificatio…
A flaw hidden for 9 years in the Linux kernel, this is what Qualys researchers have just dug up. Its small name is ssh-keysign-pwn or DirtyDecrypt (CVE-2026-46333 for intimates), and it allows any local user without privileges to pass root, read your /etc/shadow and steal the private SSH keys of your server. And this bug was sleeping there since November 2016, i.e. since version 4.10 of the kernel. No one had ever seen it and as much to say to y…
Nine-year-old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Let Attackers Exfiltrate SSH Private Keys
A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333, exposes a serious local privilege escalation flaw that has remained undetected for nearly nine years. Security researchers at the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) revealed that the issue allows attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data, including SSH private keys, and execute arbitrary commands as root on affected systems. The flaw resides in the Linux kernel’s __ptrace_may_a…
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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 score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major
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