ChipsArs Technicaabout 5 hours ago
Google pays $250K for Linux VM escape flaw
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A Linux vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-53359 allows guest virtual machines to gain root access to host machines. The flaw resides in KVM, a virtual machine app in the Linux kernel. Google paid $250,000 for the discovery. The vulnerability threatens cloud platforms that use KVM to isolate user instances.
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