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Researcher Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada disclosed CIFSwitch, a Linux privilege‑escalation flaw lingering for nearly 20 years Affects major distros including Mint, CentOS Stream 9, Rocky Linux 9, ...

A public exploit is available for a nine-year old vulnerability that affects the Linux kernel, paving the way for root privilege escalation. The flaw, which actually is two vulnerabilities chained ...

Similar to the “Copy Fail” exploit revealed a week ago, the two “Dirty Frag” exploits (CVE-2026-43284) also allow a local user to give themselves root privileges on nearly any Linux distribution. The ...

A new Linux zero-day exploit, named Dirty Frag, allows local attackers to gain root privileges on most major Linux distributions with a single command. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim, who disclosed ...

CISA warns that the nine-year-old Linux Copy Fail flaw is being actively exploited, allowing local attackers to gain root access on affected systems.

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