Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks (Fragnesia) (CVE-2026-46300)

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new variant in the DirtyFrag family of Linux local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, named ‘Fragnesia’. Tracked as CVE-2026-46300, successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an unprivileged local attacker to modify read-only file contents in the kernel page cache and gain root privileges. The vulnerability has been named Fragnesia because the core bug … Continue reading “Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks (Fragnesia) (CVE-2026-46300)”