Security News > 2024 > August > New Linux Kernel Exploit Technique 'SLUBStick' Discovered by Researchers
2024-08-07 14:10
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel Linux kernel exploitation technique dubbed SLUBStick that could be exploited to elevate a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive. "Initially, it exploits a timing side-channel of the allocator to perform a cross-cache attack reliably," a group of academics from the Graz University of Technology said [PDF]. "
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