• Nix and Lix local root-privilege-escalation vulnerabilities

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    Nix and Lix local root-privilege-escalation vulnerabilities

    Date:
    Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:13:24 +0000

    Description:
    The Lix and Nix projects have jointly
    disclosed a set of vulnerabilities that can be used to escalate privileges
    to root on systems running the Lix or Nix daemons. " All systems that build untrusted derivations are affected. " Releases with fixes from each project
    are available today. CVE IDs have not yet been requested. See the announcement for more details on the vulnerabilities.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1100247/


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