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## Update 2026-05-13: Fragnesia
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## Update 2026-05-13: Fragnesia
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Yet another network fragment handling issue which fails to properly prevent
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in-place en/decryption which can be made to hit sensitive page cache contents
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that was put there with splice has been discovered with
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{Fragnesia](https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/13/3).
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[Fragnesia](https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/13/3).
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It's a simple logic error where the sharing property is forgotten in buffer
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coalescing. It has gotten CVE-2026-46300.
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## Update 2026-05-15: ssh-keysaign-pwn
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This LPE is unrelated to the others; under certain circumstances, the kernel
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## Outlook
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The density with which severe issues are currently found is notable. While the
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The density with which severe issues are currently found is notable. While the
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research in the referenced issues originated from human beings being suspicious
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that certain things were not handled correctly everywhere, they were assisted
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by AI tools in the search. This pattern is likely to turn up a relevant number
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once a pattern emerges, several teams compete for speed to find related issues
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and decide in favor of disclosing before someone else finds it also. Another
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reason is that there are people that now use AI tools to analyze merged bugfixes
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to the kernel using AI tools -- the fact that they are not flagged as security
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to the kernel using AI tools - the fact that they are not flagged as security
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issues no longer is a good cover. So software distributors need to expect more
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of these occurences where they are struggling to patch software, validate the
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fixes and ship to customers before large-scale attacks happen. Operators will
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The authors would like to thank Taeyang Lee at Xint (who initiated the
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research on copy.fail) and Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel, who discovered Dirty Frag).
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Update 2026-05-15: They would also like to acknowledge William Bowling (V12) for Fragnesia
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Update 2026-05-15: They would also like to acknowledge William Bowling (V12) for Fragnesia
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and Jann Horn and Qualys for ssh-keysign-pwn.
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They would also like to thank the upstream Linux kernel maintainers and
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Linux distributors for their reliable work no handling the issues and

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