The other article says that this is a privilege escalation: > The exploits and proofs of concept that we developed in the course of our research are all Local

The other article says that this is a privilege escalation: > The exploits and proofs of concept that we developed in the course of our research are all Local Privilege Escalations: an attacker who has any kind of access to an affected system can exploit the Stack Clash vulnerability and obtain full root privileges. https://blog.qualys.com/securitylabs/2017/06/19/the-stack-clash https://blog.qualys.com/securitylabs/2017/06/19/the-stack-cl...