{"id":"thehackernews-ebaf37949a88","seq":2941,"kind":"news","title":"Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug","url":"https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-demonstrate-openbsd-root.html","permalink":"https://vulnpulse.app/items/thehackernews-ebaf37949a88","summary":"A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections.Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped","severity":null,"techs":[],"cves":[],"tags":["security"],"source":{"id":"thehackernews","name":"The Hacker News"},"published_at":"2026-10-16T17:48:45.000Z","fetched_at":"2026-10-21T16:17:48.024Z"}