Tag: CVE-2026-46333

Reading Root-Owned Files Without Privilege

Technical Analysis · Linux Kernel Vulnerability Reading Root-Owned Files Without Privilege: What CVE-2026-46333 Reveals About Nine Years of Blind Spot in the Linux Kernel A race window in the Linux kernel ptrace access control allows, via pidfd_getfd(2), the theft of file descriptors held by SUID root binaries about to terminate. Two public exploits exfiltrate SSH…