Easy-to-use make-me-root exploit lands for recent Linux kernels. Get patching

A critical local privilege‑escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-1086) in the Linux kernel's netfilter (nf_tables) double-free allows unprivileged users to obtain root; a public proof-of-concept and detailed technical write-up (including the "Dirty Pagedirectory" memory corruption technique) are available, the flaw affects kernels roughly from 5.14 to 6.6.14 with a reported ~99.4% PoC success on some versions, and although upstream patches were released in late January, unpatched systems (default unprivileged user namespaces enabled on many distributions) remain at high risk.