KopitalkDirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE - CVE similar to Copy Fail
Eager Eaglehttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
Local Privilege Escalation “Dirty Frag” made public
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
- https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/linux-kernel-dirty-frag-lpe-exploit.html
- https://safecomputing.umich.edu/security-alerts/linux-kernel-vulnerability-%E2%80%9Cdirty-frag%E2%80%9D
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-dirty-frag-zero-day-with-poc-exploit-gives-root-privileges/
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OoopsAnd already patched in mainline.
Let’s see how many hours it takes for backports to all generally supported versions in common distros.
No, no! Don’t you see! You need big daddy tech to protect you from the h4xorz. If you keep trying to own your own hardware and maintain your privacy, the terrorists win!!!
I’m glad there are more people looking at linux now. I have more confidence in appropriate handling than by any for profit, publicly traded company, like Microslop.
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RFC: As I understand it this exploit requires local access and cannot be deployed remotely. Is this a correct analysis?
right, but remote code execution comes in many different ways. Having a machine vulnerable to this kind of privilege escalation is a really bad thing.
Certainly. I don’t discount that any exploit is ‘really bad’. I like my OS of choice to be as free of exploits as it can possibly be. However, some of the material I was reading involved areas of Linux that I have little if any knowledge of value with, so I thought I’d as the question.
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It’s a LOCAL privilege escalation vulnerability. You need sufficient access to be able to execute arbitrary code locally on the machine. You would need a remote code execution vulnerability in an exposed service (VPN, web server, game server and so on) before an attacker could chain to this to get remote root on your system.
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