New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions

iT4iNT SERVER Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root.
The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori.
"An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux VDS VPS Cloud


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