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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE - allows any unprivileged local user to gain root access on a vulnerable Linux system - no patch available (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] lengau@midwest.social 7 points 6 months ago

Desktop machines aren't really the target of these kinds of attacks.

Also I think the author in this case seems to have been pretty reasonable about what they did. If more of these issues were done this way I wouldn't have nearly as much irritation about "branded bugs."