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Cybersecurity
High severity vulnerability in Linux systems
A high severity security vulnerability (CVSS: 7.8) (CVE-2026-31431) has been discovered in the Linux kernel, allowing an attacker to perform local privilege escalation—from a regular user to root access. The vulnerability stems from a logic flaw in the Linux kernel's cryptography subsystems. echo "install algif_aead /bin/false" > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-algif.conf rmmod algif_aead 2>/dev/null || true