AI Agent Finds Linux Kernel Bug That Turns a Tiny Memory Write Into Root Access

Autonomous security research platform XBOW has disclosed CVE-2026-72018, a high-severity Linux kernel vulnerability that converts a tightly constrained out-of-bounds memory write into local root access. The flaw affects the DIBS loopback implementation used by the SMC-D shared-memory communication path, where a missing bounds check allows attacker-controlled data to be copied beyond an allocated kernel buffer. […]

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