{"id":8176,"date":"2026-05-21T09:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/9-year-old-linux-kernel-flaw-enables-root-command-execution-on-major-distros\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:11:52","slug":"9-year-old-linux-kernel-flaw-enables-root-command-execution-on-major-distros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/9-year-old-linux-kernel-flaw-enables-root-command-execution-on-major-distros\/","title":{"rendered":"9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/9-year-old-linux-kernel-flaw-enables-root-command-execution-on-major-distros\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}