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Published May 8, 2026, 4:44 PM EDT

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The Linux community is dealing with its second major security risk in as many weeks. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim has disclosed a new zero-day vulnerability, Dirty Frag, that gives intruders more control over virtually any Linux distribution once they have an initial foothold.

The newly published flaw makes use of vulnerabilities in kernel networking and memory fragment handling, including esp6 ( CVE-2026-43284 ) and rxrpc (CVE-2026-43500).…