Welcome – Gentoo Linux Get Gentoo! gentoo.org sites gentoo.org Wiki Bugs Packages Forums Planet Archives Devmanual Gitweb Infra status Toggle navigation Home Get started Downloads Inside Gentoo Support Get involved Donate Welcome to Gentoo, a highly flexible, source-based Linux distribution. Learn more Get started now Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (May 19, 2026) The Linux kernel has recently been facing a series of discovered privilege escalation vulnerabilities, starting with the Copy Fail vulnerability and followed by subsequent vulnerabilities in the same spirit (Dirty Frag, Fragnesia). This development is part of a general trend where vulnerabilities are being found - and disclosed - faster than before. We expect it to continue, at least for the short-term. The Gentoo Linux Kernel and Distribution Kernel teams are doing their best to keep Gentoo kernels secure. This includes both packaging the latest upstream releases as soon as possible, and backporting additional vulnerability fixes or mitigations whenever they become available. As example, while upstream kernel releases are still vulnerable to Fragnesia, the respective Gentoo kernels feature fixes from day one. At the time of writing, all supported Gentoo kernels feature the latest Fragnesia v5 patch. Please expect more updates. We recommend exploring ways to automate upgrading your kernel. Please note that only sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel, sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin and sys-kernel/gentoo-sources packages are security-supported. The vanilla kernel packages are vulnerable at the moment. Other kernel packages may carry fixes, but they usually are slower to be updated. Additionally, we recommend running the latest kernel version (~arch or latest stable LTS), as upstream does not reliably backport security fixes to older versions. The Gentoo Big Forum Upgrade (Apr 2, 2026) It’s taken a lot of time, but we have finally made the big step to upgrade our Gentoo Forums to phpBB3. You will notice a few differences between phpBB2 and today: It’s definitely not Discourse. Everyone must change their password at first login, just to freshen them up. Reports are more private-like now, but we may get the old public reporting topic back later. Discussion and feedback are welcome on the ‘The Gentoo Big Forum Upgrade’ discussion thread. All news items Developer blogs live from Planet Gentoo GentooNews Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities GentooNews The Gentoo Big Forum Upgrade GentooNews Gentoo GNU/Hurd GentooNews Supercharging our forums with AI GentooNews In Memory of Hans de Graaff Security advisories from our Security database GLSA 202608-02 FreeType: Multiple Vulnerabilities normal GLSA 202604-04 DTrace: Arbitrary file creation via dtprobed normal GLSA 202604-03 FUSE: Multiple Vulnerabilities normal GLSA 202603-01 Exiv2: Multiple Vulnerabilities normal GLSA 202601-05 Commons-BeanUtils: Arbitary Code Execution high New packages at the Gentoo packages database dev-python/liblore Shared library for public-inbox / lore.kernel.org access dev-python/pysequoia Provides OpenPGP facilities using Sequoia-PGP library app-emacs/telega Full-featured unofficial GNU Emacs client for Telegram acct-user/apache_exporter User for the apache_exporter prometheus plugin app-metrics/apache_exporter Prometheus exporter for apache metrics Fresh documentation on the Gentoo wiki PipeWire/extra started by Flexibeast Gentoo-zh/zh-tw started by Zakkau Binary package guide/Settingup started by Immolo Binary package guide/Building cross started by Immolo Binary package guide/Building native started by Immolo Questions or comments? Please feel free to contact us. Home News Get Started About Gentoo Philosophy Screenshots FAQ Downloads alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa loong m68k mips ppc riscv s390 sparc x86 Inside Gentoo Developers Projects Artwork GLEPs Gentoo Foundation Sponsors Stores Contact Support Consulting Documentation Package database Repository news items Security USE flags rsync mirrors Get Involved IRC channels Forums Mailing lists Contribute Become a developer Get the code m Privacy Policy © 2001-2026 Gentoo Authors Gentoo is a trademark of the Gentoo Foundation, Inc. and of Förderverein Gentoo e.V. The contents of this document, unless otherwise expressly stated, are licensed under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. The Gentoo Name and Logo Usage Guidelines apply. Version 57c568e Generated Generated: 2026-08-13T17:00:33Z