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A newly tracked vulnerability, CVE-2026-31431, has surfaced in the copy.fail component of the Linux kernel, enabling local privilege escalation to root for attackers who already have foothold on a targeted system. The flaw, referenced in upstream reporting via LWN.net, carries potential impact comparable to the notorio...
Security researchers at Wiz have disclosed "Fragnesia," a critical Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability that permits unprivileged users to obtain root-level access by corrupting page cache memory. Tracked as CVE-2026-46300, the flaw was discovered by William Bowling of the V12 security team and resides...