GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years

Vulnerability Disclosure(nebusec.ai)view on HackerNews
LinuxkernelvulnerabilityGhostLockCVE-2026-43499CVEexploitprivilege escalationcontainer escaperoot access.

Author: djfergus

Date: 7/10/2026

Article Summary:
A Linux kernel vulnerability, GhostLock, allows an unprivileged local attacker to gain a dangling kernel pointer to kernel stack memory, write a pointer to an arbitrary address, and hijack a function table to gain control flow hijack and root access.