A new Linux kernel bug lets an ordinary, unprivileged user become root. It now hits Android too. Researchers have named it Bad Epoll. The Bad Epoll vulnerability carries the identifier CVE-2026-46242.

DirtyClone, tracked as CVE-2026-43503, is a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows any local user to gain root privileges.

A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...

A new variant in the Dirty Frag family of Linux local privilege escalation flaws has surfaced, the third root-level Linux kernel bug disclosed in three weeks. According to new analysis from cloud ...

For the second time in two weeks, a significant privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux. The vulnerability known as "Dirty Frag" enables escalation from an unprivileged user to ...

The actively exploited flaw builds on Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail techniques to overwrite page cache and gain full system control. A newly disclosed Linux privilege escalation issue dubbed “Dirty Frag” ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Dirty Frag Linux zero-day confirmed. Updated May 10: This article regarding the critical ...

“Dirty Frag” marks the third privilege escalation vulnerability (or rather, combination of vulnerabilities) discovered within two weeks, allowing attackers to escalate their privileges in most Linux ...

Root pruning is one of those garden techniques that new gardeners hear about and scares them. But it is very easy to do and extremely helpful to the plants that you are doing it to because it allows ...

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Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

IT researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that attackers can exploit to gain root privileges. The discoverers have named the vulnerability “Copy Fail.” Virtually all Linux ...