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Screenshot of openwall.com: For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (openwall.com)

565 points by ori_b 5 months ago | 477 comments

An oss-security mailing list reply from Gentoo's Sam James on CVE-2026-31431 (CopyFail), a Linux local privilege escalation, and the lack of advance notice to distributions.

linux-kernel cve-2026-31431 copyfail privilege-escalation

Copy Fail (copy.fail)

1261 points by unsnap_biceps 5 months ago | 448 comments

Disclosure site for Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), a Linux kernel logic-flaw local privilege escalation exploitable by a 732-byte Python script on distros since 2017.

linux-kernel privilege-escalation cve-2026-31431 container-escape

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For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions(openwall.com)

Copy Fail(copy.fail)

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (openwall.com)

Copy Fail (copy.fail)