Fragnesia: New Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit
Summary
A new Linux privilege escalation exploit called Fragnesia has been released with proof-of-concept code on GitHub.
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Source: https://github.com/v12-security/pocs
pocs
we will release pocs in this repo
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