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[CVE-2026-31431] Copy Fail: Universal Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Summary

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): an algif_aead flaw lets unprivileged users write 4 bytes into the page cache of any readable file via AF_ALG and splice(), escalating to root on kernels since 2017.
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