Mitigate Another Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation

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A researcher has publicly disclosed the second privilege escalation exploit for the Linux kernel in two weeks. Dubbed "Dirty Frag" and compared to the recent "Copy Fail," the exploit is deterministic and involves chaining two page cache wri

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