[ALERT] CopyFail 3.0 - Fragnesia (opens in new tab)

Fragnesia is a universal Linux local privilege escalation exploit, discovered with V12 by William Bowling with the V12 team. Fragnesia is a member of the Dirty Frag vulnerability class. This is a separate bug in the ESP/XFRM from dirtyfrag which has received its own patch. However, it is in the same surface and the mitigation is the same as for dirtyfrag. It abuses a logic bug in the Linux XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem to achieve arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files...