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Dirty Frag: A new Linux privilege escalation vulnerability is already in the wild

  • Pierluigi Paganini--Securityaffairs.com
  • published date: 2026-05-08 11:19:17 UTC

Dirty Frag: unpatched Linux kernel flaw grants root access on Ubuntu, RHEL and Fedora. A working exploit is already public. Security researchers have disclosed a new unpatched vulnerability in the Linux kernel, code-named Dirty Frag, that allows an unprivileg…

Dirty Frag: A new Linux privilege escalation vulnerability is already in the wild Security researchers have disclosed a new unpatched vulnerability in the Linux kernel, code-named Dirty Frag, that a… [+3225 chars]