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cyberHIGH2026-05-08 21:00 UTC

New Linux 'Dirty Frag' Zero-Day Gives Root On All Major Distros

mrspoonsi shares a report: Dirty Frag is a vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel), that can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write vulnerability and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write vulnerability. Dirty Frag extends

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