{"id":13910,"date":"2026-06-27T07:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/new-linux-pedit-cow-exploit-enables-html\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:03:59","slug":"new-linux-pedit-cow-exploit-enables-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/new-linux-pedit-cow-exploit-enables-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A flaw in the Linux kernel&#8217;s traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user gain root on affected systems.<\/p>\n<p>CVE-2026-46331, nicknamed &#8220;pedit COW,&#8221; is an out-of-bounds write in the packet-editing action (act_pedit) that corrupts shared page-cache memory. A\u00a0public, working exploit\u00a0appeared within a day of the CVE assignment on June 16. Red Hat\u00a0rates the flaw as<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/new-linux-pedit-cow-exploit-enables.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries A flaw in the Linux kernel&#8217;s traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user gain root on affected systems. CVE-2026-46331, nicknamed &#8220;pedit COW,&#8221; is an out-of-bounds write in the packet-editing action (act_pedit) that corrupts shared page-cache memory. A\u00a0public, working exploit\u00a0appeared within a day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-13910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}