Publicly launched exploit code for an successfully unpatched vulnerability that offers root entry to nearly all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to keep off severe compromises inside information facilities and on private units. The vulnerability and exploit code that exploits it have been released Wednesday evening by researchers from…
Developers of main Linux distributions have begun delivery patches to tackle an area privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw. The newly disclosed LPE, dubbed Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), comes from a vulnerability within the Linux kernel’s authencesn cryptographic template. “An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of…
Penguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0, a matter of some small interest, because it continues his convention of not using version numbers he can’t count on his fingers and toes, and perhaps cements a numbering convention that sees kernel series end with version 19….
