666: Berkeley Suffering Distribution
From LINUX Unplugged by Jupiter Broadcasting
May 11, 2026 · 1h 17m · Episode 666
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges faced during the installation of BSD systems and highlights a new vulnerability class affecting Linux distributions.
Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Texas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TX Texas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026 Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities. How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability…
People in this episode
Host: Chris Fisher
Topics covered
- BSD
- Linux
- vulnerabilities
- installation
- desktop
- challenges
Keywords
- BSD
- Linux
- installation
- vulnerabilities
- Dirty Frag
- CVE-2026-43284
- CVE-2026-43500
Sponsors
Jupiter Party Annual Membership, Managed Nebula
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Defined Networking
Books & works: Dirty Frag, LinuxFest Northwest 2026, Texas Linux Festival 2026, Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report, Pinchflat, Sinchflat, CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500
Places: Bellingham, Washington, Austin, TX
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