Dirty Frag: Using the Page Caches as an Attack Surface
Dirty Frag is a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) chain published on May 7, 2026. It combines two previously unknown kernel vulnerabilities can allow an unprivileged local user to escalate to root on many major Linux distributions. As of May 8, 2026, CVE-2026-43284 had been patched in mainline
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