{"id":240272,"date":"2026-07-04T07:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/new-bad-epoll-linux-kernel-flaw-lets-unprivileged-users-gain-root-hits-android"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:09:24","slug":"new-bad-epoll-linux-kernel-flaw-lets-unprivileged-users-gain-root-hits-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/new-bad-epoll-linux-kernel-flaw-lets-unprivileged-users-gain-root-hits-android","title":{"rendered":"New \u201cBad Epoll\u201d Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-bad-epoll-linux-kernel-flaw-lets-unprivileged-users-gain-root-hits-android.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called <b>Bad Epoll<\/b> (CVE-2026\u201346242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bad Epoll<\/b> sits in the same small stretch of kernel code where Anthropic\u2019s most powerful AI model, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/anthropic-releases-claude-fable-5-its.html\">Mythos<\/a><\/b>, recently found a different bug.<\/p>\n<p>The AI caught one flaw and missed this one. A researcher, Jaeyoung Chung, found it and built a working attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026\u201346242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out. Bad Epoll sits in the same small stretch of kernel code where Anthropic\u2019s most powerful AI model, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}