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Local Privilege Escalation in Ubuntu Kernel via OverlayFS

Publicly available proof-of-concept exploits targeting CVE-2023-2640 and CVE-2023-32629 allow unprivileged users to gain root access on Ubuntu systems by bypassing permission checks in the overlayfs subsystem.

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