• Local-privilege escalation in snapd

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Thu Mar 19 06:40:08 2026

    Qualys has discovered
    a local-privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting Ubuntu
    Desktop 24.04 and later:

    This flaw (CVE-2026-3888) allows an unprivileged local attacker to
    escalate privileges to full root access through the interaction of two
    standard system components: snap-confine and systemd-tmpfiles.

    More details are available in the security
    advisory. Canonical has published updated packages as well as instructions
    for verifying if a system is vulnerable and how to upgrade if so.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1063453/
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