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PwnEscape Linux kernel flaw lets guest VMs read and write host memory

Maintainer of the vulnerable code; fix merged October 14

A tenant on a shared cloud server can send a crafted network packet and read host kernel memory. In a lab, researchers chained that access into code execution inside the Firecracker process, but only with an unpatched kernel and no jailer.

Updated 3 days ago

Linux kernel drops requirement to disclose AI-assisted code

Rule Changes

Dropped the Assisted-by requirement in docs-next; mainline merge pending

Linux kernel maintainers agreed at an October 8 summit in Prague to stop requiring developers to disclose when AI tools helped write their code. A majority of about 30 senior developers backed scrapping the 'Assisted-by' tag, which had been required since January.

Updated Oct 22