The industry is being rocked by a series of vulnerabilities that allow abuse of trusted Linux kernel or root-service data-handling paths, especially caching, copying, parsing, fragmentation, and helper-broker logic, to turn unprivileged input into privileged state changes without requiring a traditional malicious executable launch. The common theme is boundary confusion: attacker-controlled data crosses into trusted kernel or root-owned execution paths, where flaws in caching, parsing, copying, or helper authorization convert it into root-level control. AZT was designed to stop all such attacks, blocking these exploits without requiring updates, threat intelligence, or operator effort.
The following summarizes this class of attacks with 7 recent attacks: