CVE-2026-31431 CVSS 7.8 flaw since 2017 enables root via 732-byte exploit, impacting major Linux distributions. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenam... [2711 chars]
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