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Linux@programming.devEnglish · 20 days ago

The same 732-byte Python script roots every Linux distribution shipped since 2017

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The same 732-byte Python script roots every Linux distribution shipped since 2017

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Linux@programming.devEnglish · 20 days ago

Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root

CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.

woaw

also a good blog post about it https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions

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you’d only need to change the payload part, which is a compiled x86 ELF header.

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