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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