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Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
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Copy Fail is a logic flaw that allows for local privilege escalation on Linux systems without the need for a race window or kernel-specific offsets. A 732-byte Python script can exploit this flaw to gain root access on every Linux distribution released since 2017, functioning unmodified across multiple systems.