{"id":14072,"date":"2026-07-04T07:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/new-bad-epoll-linux-kernel-flaw-lets-html\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:03:46","slug":"new-bad-epoll-linux-kernel-flaw-lets-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/new-bad-epoll-linux-kernel-flaw-lets-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;Bad Epoll&#8221; Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>New &#8220;Bad Epoll&#8221; Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Epoll sits in the same small stretch of kernel code where Anthropic&#8217;s most powerful AI model, Mythos, recently found a different bug.<\/p>\n<p>The AI caught one flaw and missed<\/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\/07\/new-bad-epoll-linux-kernel-flaw-lets.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New &#8220;Bad Epoll&#8221; Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out. Bad Epoll sits in [&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-14072","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\/14072"}],"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=14072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}