Mitigation for Dirty Frag Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability

Erulezz · 2026-05-15T14:37:07-0600

I have never done so many reboots in the last few weeks

sysdev · 2026-05-15T14:37:58-0600

Erulezz said:
I have never done so many reboots in the last few weeks

I've had disasters with less reboots :/

Driesp · 2026-05-16T08:03:59-0600

You can run this to fix without rebooting:

Code:

sysctl -w kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=3
echo 'kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=3' > /etc/sysctl.d/99-ptracenull.conf