Nix and Lix local root-privilege-escalation vulnerabilities
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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