Dirty Frag in Kubernetes: unset seccomp behaved like Unconfined in our EKS/GKE tests
For anyone defending Kubernetes clusters, Dirty Frag is worth looking at as more than a generic "patch Linux" item. Dirty Frag is the recent Linux local privilege-escalation PoC around page-cache write primitives. The upstream project describes two paths: xfrm/ESP and RxRPC. As of May 8, 2026, 13:1
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