Dirty Frag: a zero-day universal Linux LPE
Hyunwoo Kim has announced
the Dirty\
Frag security flaw, a
local-privilege-escalation (LPE) vulnerability similar to the
recently disclosed Copy Fail
flaw:

Because the embargo has now been broken, no patches or CVEs exist for
these vulnerabilities. After consultation with the linux-distros@vs.openwall.org
maintainers, and at the maintainers’ re … ⌘ Read more