15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros
Source: The Hacker News
Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has not been patched.
The vulnerable code has shipped by default in essentially every mainstream distri