{"id":20102,"date":"2026-04-30T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/new-linux-copy-fail-vulnerability-enables-root-access-on-major-distributions-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:24:00","slug":"new-linux-copy-fail-vulnerability-enables-root-access-on-major-distributions-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/new-linux-copy-fail-vulnerability-enables-root-access-on-major-distributions-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"New Linux &#8216;Copy Fail&#8217; Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root.<br \/>\nThe high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori.<br \/>\n&#8220;An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/new-linux-copy-fail-vulnerability.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}