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May 30 2026 New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions

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A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request mechanism, and gain root privileges. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Sat 30 May 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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