Another Universal Linux Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) Vulnerability: Dirty Frag, (Fri, May 8th)
Less than two weeks after the public disclosure of the Copy Fail vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431), another local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been revealed. Referred to as "Dirty Frag," this vulnerability was discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel) [1]. In t
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