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Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution. - Xint

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Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution. - Xint

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Xint Code disclosed CVE-2026-31431, an authencesn scratch-write bug chaining AF_ALG + splice() into a 4-byte page cache write. A 732-byte PoC gets root on Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE. | AI for Security, Vulnerability Research

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So I’m on Ubuntu 24.04. Is there like a patch I can run to protect myself?

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