Copy Fail: CVE-2026-31431 Linux Privilege Escalation
Yesterday, a critical Linux kernel vulnerability was publicly disclosed — and it’s a bad one. A 731-byte Python script, downloaded and piped directly into the interpreter, is enough to give any unprivileged local user a root shell. No race conditions. No kernel offsets to guess. Just a straight-line exploit that works on every major Linux distribution going back to 2017. If you run Linux servers — especially multi-tenant ones — you need to patch this now....