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Researchers Exploit 37-Year-Old OpenBSD Bug
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Security researchers from Calif successfully exploited a 37-year-old kernel bug in OpenBSD to gain local root access. The team mapped 127 SysV shared memory segments and forked 259 processes to trigger an integer overflow. This allowed them to overwrite kernel pointers and achieve code execution, demonstrating a critical flaw in the operating system's shared memory attachment counter.
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