vulnerability
Copy.Fail Linux Vulnerability
High
Summary
This is the worst Linux vulnerability in years. TL;DR copy.fail is a Linux kernel local privilege escalation, not a browser or clipboard attack. Disclosed by Theori on 29 April 2026 with a working PoC. It abuses the kernel crypto API (AF_ALG sockets) plus splice() to write four bytes at a time straight into the page ca
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