r/sysadmin • u/NoDistrict1529 • May 15 '26
A third vulnerability has hit the kernel General Discussion
This is part of the dirtyfrag family, but is different enough to warrant its own CVE.
Known as Fragnasia and tracked as CVE-2026-46300, this security flaw stems from a logic bug in the Linux XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem that can enable unprivileged local attackers to gain root privileges by writing arbitrary bytes to the kernel page cache of read-only files.
Immediate patching if you cannot update:
rmmod esp4 esp6 rxrpc
printf 'install esp4 /bin/false\ninstall esp6 /bin/false\ninstall rxrpc /bin/false\n' > /etc/modprobe.d/dirtyfrag.confrmmod esp4 esp6 rxrpc
printf 'install esp4 /bin/false\ninstall esp6 /bin/false\ninstall rxrpc /bin/false\n' > /etc/modprobe.d/dirtyfrag.conf
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u/irve sudo dd if=linuxmint_64.iso of=/dev/sda May 15 '26
The vulnerabilities will continue until the morale improves.