Fragnesia: Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation via ESP-in-TCP
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Summary
Fragnesia, a new DirtyFrag-family Linux LPE, abuses XFRM ESP-in-TCP skb coalescing and AES-GCM keystream manipulation to corrupt the page cache and overwrite /usr/bin/su in memory for root.
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--- id: 6835 title: "Fragnesia: Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation via ESP-in-TCP" source_domain: wiz.io source_url: "https://www.wiz.io/blog/fragnesia-linux-kernel-local-privilege-escalation-via-esp-in-tcp" published_at: "2026-05-13T12:13:44Z" tags: ["privilege-escalation", "linux-kernel", "vulnerability", "fragnesia", "dirtyfrag", "page-cache"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/6835" lang: en --- # Fragnesia: Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation via ESP-in-TCP ## Summary Fragnesia, a new DirtyFrag-family Linux LPE, abuses XFRM ESP-in-TCP skb coalescing and AES-GCM keystream manipulation to corrupt the page cache and overwrite /usr/bin/su in memory for root. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** wiz.io - **Published:** 2026-05-13T12:13:44Z - **Original:** https://www.wiz.io/blog/fragnesia-linux-kernel-local-privilege-escalation-via-esp-in-tcp - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6835