The Linux kernel since version 3.16 to 4.18.8 has an unfixed vulnerability, as disclosed by Google Project Zero. The vulnerability was first exposed by Jann Horn, a cybersecurity researcher under the Project Zero program. Successful exploitation of the bug enables the attacker to gain root access in the Linux-based computer. The bug itself is in code that is reachable even from relatively strongly sandboxed contexts, but this blogpost only describes a way to exploit it in environments that use Linux kernels that havent been configured for increased security.”]