Sourceware server reboots for Copy Fail CVE-2026-31431

Mark Wielaard <[email protected]> Fri, 1 May 2026 21:24:30 +0200

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Hi all,

Because of a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the linux
kernel (Copy Fail CVE-2026-31431) we have been updating kernel
packages (for Debian and Fedora Core OS) and installing band-aids [1]
on various servers/vms. Which required reboots. We will likely have to
reboot some servers/vms again in the coming days. Apologies for the
disruption.

See https://sourceware.org/sourceware-wiki/servers-and-services-2026/
for the various servers, vms and services.

Thanks to Claudio and Frank for helping run the update scripts and/or
installing the security band-aids.

Cheers,

Mark

[1] https://sourceware.org/cgit/systemtap/tree/testsuite/systemtap.examples/security-band-aids/cve-2026-31431.stp