The flaw is in the same family as Dirty Frag and allows privilege escalation at kernel level.

A fix for a previous Linux kernel critical exploit opened the door for the new critical vulnerability, a third in two weeks.

Threat actors have started to exploit Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), a Linux kernel vulnerability leading to root shell access.

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