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A flaky test exposed a Redis client use-after-free

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-22 Cached

An engineering blog post from Buildkite details how a flaky test led to the discovery of a use-after-free bug in the redis-client Ruby library, describing the debugging process and root cause analysis.

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The case of the DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded, part 2

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) · 2026-06-26 Cached

A technical blog post by Raymond Chen investigating a memory corruption bug where a single byte 0x01 corrupts HMODULE handles, causing DLLs to be improperly freed and leading to crashes at process termination.

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The first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 was built with Mythos Preview's help, and it only took 5 days.

Reddit r/singularity · 2026-05-14 Cached

Calif researchers, with help from the AI tool Mythos Preview, built the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 hardware, bypassing MIE. The exploit chain took 5 days and will be fully disclosed after Apple fixes the vulnerabilities.

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First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-14 Cached

Researchers from Calif disclosed the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5, bypassing the MIE hardware mitigation and achieving local privilege escalation on the latest macOS version.

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Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-13 Cached

Researchers used an autonomous system to discover a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in NGINX's rewrite module (CVE-2026-42945), present since 2008, enabling remote code execution. Multiple CVEs were confirmed by NGINX.

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