Situation: A vulnerability was recently discovered in the Linux Kernel named “Dirty Frag”, which allows for Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) to the root user. “Dirty Frag” is a similar exploit to the recent “Copy/Fail” (CVE-2026-31431) vulnerability disclosed recently and is a continuation of a pre…

When tyring to enable the security repo. I just get Error: Unknown repo: 'security Any suggestions?

Try updating the rocky-release package to the latest.

When the hotfixed (HF) kernel (5.14.0-611.54.1.el9_7.0.1.x86_64) from the new security repository was installed, after reboot I noticed that OS still using the previous kernel (5.14.0-611.54.1.el9_7.x86_64). I checked the kernel indices and found that the HF has index 1 and as workaround I tried to …

[image] Artem: Has anyone else seen this behavior with the new security repository? Nope, all mine booted into the new kernel. Nothing extra was done. Just enabled the security repo and did dnf update.

What kernel version did you have before update? Was it also 5.14.0-611.54.1.el9_7.x86_64?

[image] Artem: Was it also 5.14.0-611.54.1.el9_7.x86_64? Yes, it was the same kernel version that you had.

I run dnf enablerepo=security update and the new kernel is now 5.14.0-611.54.1.el9_7.0.1.x86_64. I also noticed that the kernel 5.14.0-611.55.1.el9_7.x86_64 is also available. If I run dnf update on the system with 5.14.0-611.54.1.el9_7.0.1.x86_64 does not do any updates. Should we install the secur…

Kernel 5.14.0-611.55.1.el9_7.x86_64 is the official kernel that was fixed in RHEL. The 5.14.0-611.54.1.el9_7.0.1.x86_64 is from the security repo and the backported fix until the official fix came from RHEL. You should use the latest kernel so 5.14.0-611.55

Dirty Frag vulnerability reported for Linux kernel CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500

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jdieter May 9, 2026, 9:18pm 2

See Rocky Linux Security Repository and Dirty Frag Security Update for our fix.

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Dirty Frag vulnerability reported for Linux kernel CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500

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