CopyFail Was Not Disclosed to Distros

Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:52:37 +0100 From: Sam James <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Jan Schaumann <[email protected]> Subject: Re: CVE-2026-31431: CopyFail: linux local privilege scalation Eddie Chapman <[email protected]> writes: > On 29/04/2026 21:23, Jan Schaumann wrote: >> Affected and fixed versions >> =========================== >> Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit >> 72548b093ee38a6d4f2a19e6ef1948ae05c181f7 and fixed in >> 6.18.22 with commit >> fafe0fa2995a0f7073c1c358d7d3145bcc9aedd8 >> Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit >> 72548b093ee38a6d4f2a19e6ef1948ae05c181f7 and fixed in >> 6.19.12 with commit >> ce42ee423e58dffa5ec03524054c9d8bfd4f6237 >> Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit >> 72548b093ee38a6d4f2a19e6ef1948ae05c181f7 and fixed in >> 7.0 with commit >> a664bf3d603dc3bdcf9ae47cc21e0daec706d7a5 >> https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fafe0fa2995a0f7073c1c358d7d3145bcc9aedd8 >> https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce42ee423e58dffa5ec03524054c9d8bfd4f6237 >> https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a664bf3d603dc3bdcf9ae47cc21e0daec706d7a5 > > So this is one of the worst make-me-root vulnerabilities in the kernel > in recent times. I see that on the 11th of April 6.19.12 & 6.18.22 > were released with the fix backported. > > Longterm 6.12, 6.6, 6.1, 5.15, 5.10 have not received the fix and I > don't see anything in the upstream stable queues yet as I write. My > guess is backporting that far back is not as straightforward. As this > was introduced in 2017 all those older kernels are affected, right? Or > am I missing something? It does not apply cleanly, no. Attached is the workaround we're going to use. I'm not an expert on IPSec but I think this is the lesser evil. I attempted a backport but ran into a few API changes and wasn't confident enough to muck around with it, especially for something to deploy immediately. > [...] > > What went wrong, has the embargo been broken early today? Not looking > to point any fingers, those who make things happen in our communities > work dam hard and deserve respect and support, especially with the > extra burden of AI slop now. Note that for Linux kernel vulnerabilities, unless the reporter chooses to bring it to the linux-distros ML, there is no heads-up to distributions. It did not happen here. > > Eddie sam View attachment "0001-crypto-disable-authencesn-module-for-CVE-2026-31431.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (1543 bytes) text/x-patch Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (419 bytes) application/pgp-signature

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