Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE
Kim described Dirty Frag as a “universal LPE” affecting “all major distributions” and warned that it delivers the same kind of immediate root access as the recent CopyFail mess – only this time, defenders do not even have patches to throw at the problem.
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Source: The Register News
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