Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a trivially exploitable logic bug in Linux, reachable on all major distros released in the last 9 years. A small, portable python script gets root on all platforms.

rabber@lemmy.ca · 16 hours ago

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a trivially exploitable logic bug in Linux, reachable on all major distros released in the last 9 years. A small, portable python script gets root on all platforms.

rabber@lemmy.ca · 15 hours ago

I agree. This seems fishy to me. I am concerned about compressed code in a public disclosure like this. Also it seems like all the documentation was written by AI.

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de · 15 hours ago

The entire page is an advertisement for an AI tool that helped uncover it. Guess that’s the demonstration on how it augments a report.

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a trivially exploitable logic bug in Linux, reachable on all major distros released in the last 9 years. A small, portable python script gets root on all platforms.

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a trivially exploitable logic bug in Linux, reachable on all major distros released in the last 9 years. A small, portable python script gets root on all platforms.

Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root