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