Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed "Copy Fail" that impacts Linux kernels ...

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Copy Fail, a logic bug in the Linux kernel, allows users to write 4-byte code into other files’ page cache and achieve root ...

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The flaw allows an unprivileged local user to write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux ...

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The discoverers have named the root vulnerability "Copy Fail". All major distributions since 2017 are affected.

A logic flaw sitting undetected in the Linux kernel for nearly nine years lets any unprivileged local user gain root access ...

CVE-2026-31431 CVSS 7.8 flaw since 2017 enables root via 732-byte exploit, impacting major Linux distributions.

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