Dirty Frag Sequel Continues the Streak of Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

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Fragnesia, the latest local privilege escalation vulnerability in the same family as Dirty Frag, emerges as an “unintended side effect of one of the patches addressing the original Dirty Frag vulnerabilities” according to the original creator of Dirty Frag, Hyunwood Kim.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/05/17/dirty-frag-sequel-continues-the-streak-of-linux-kernel-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities
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I for one can’t wait for Fedora Hummingbird to become more usable and mature. Will have to wait a while for sure but such is technology these days.

Hope it fixes the issues we’re now seeing everyday with Linux.

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