In recent weeks, alarm bells have been ringing repeatedly over critical vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Why is that? Do we have AI to thank for these discoveries? And should we expect similar ...

May 2026 dropped three critical Linux vulnerabilities on a near-weekly cadence, and the security discourse has mostly treated them as three separate bad days. They’re not. Together they form a ...

Two Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed within a week of each other. Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), disclosed on 29 April 2026 by security firm Theori, ...

A tiny Python script triggered a major Linux failure in a way that few users would expect. The incident shows how even small pieces of code can expose deep problems inside complex systems. For ...

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The Linux "Copy Fail" vulnerability, which grants attackers root privileges, became known before the weekend. It is already being attacked. Just before the long weekend, the Linux security ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) ...

On April 29, 2026, security researchers at Theori and Xint Code publicly disclosed CVE-2026-31431, a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability they named Copy Fail. Any unprivileged local user ...

Microsoft Defender is investigating a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) affecting multiple major Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and AWS ...

An exploit for the “Copy Fail” security vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) in the Linux kernel has been made public. The vulnerability affects all major Linux distributions released since 2017 and grants ...