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I Found a $113,337 Af_alg Linux Local Privilege Escalation Before Copy Fail idnsec.com

A retrospective on CVE-2025-39964, an AF_ALG race condition I found in 2025 before Copy Fail drew attention to the same subsystem. I explain the out-of-bounds scatterlist access, the usercopy oracle, and the exploit…

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