A researcher from offensive security firm Theori has found a nine-year-old flaw in the Linux kernel with the help of AI
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Nine-year-old Linux kernel flaw enables reliable local privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431)
Security researchers at Theori have disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) in the Linux kernel. The flaw, nicknamed “Copy Fail”, has affected virtually every major Linux distribution shipped since 2017, and a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit is publicly available. About CVE-2026-31431 According to Theori researchers, CVE-2026-31431 originates from the interaction of three…
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Theori brings Xint Code to market for large-scale AI code security analysis
Theori has made Xint Code commercially available, an LLM-native static application security testing (SAST) tool capable of analyzing millions of lines of source code, configuration files, and binaries in less than 12 hours. Xint Code’s approach to deep scanning and contextual analysis of massive codebases helps application security teams identify, reproduce, validate and understand the…