As of now the submission title is simply “Copy Fail”.
Given the severity of the exploit, can we edit the Title to add some context that it’s a major Linux vulnerability?
Eg the other submissions say this : “Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.”
- buy a domain
- vibe code a page/artifact/whatever (which, given the quality of LLM wordings, only makes an argument less strong)
- post it on HN with no further explanation in the title
Why not write a detailed report? Even a tweet makes much more sense in my head than this. Even a logo??
Sorry if this comes over as salty, I guess I'm just not getting the thought process.
How recursive should their notifications be? Just the tip three distros? The top dozen? Every embedded Linux router company? How about every hosting provider?
They did what they're supposed to without being paid for it. The only other good source of funding for security research besides marketing budgets for security companies will NOT result in a disclosure timeline you'd be happier with. ;-)
This site though is pretty useful; first it serves as a central location to point people to with short links in chats/emails/whatever, then it has a quick visual explainer and a link to the detailed technical report for those who want more info. Pretty neat.
Last but not least, buying the domain must have taken 5 minutes, prompting the page must have taken 30 minutes and posting it on HN must have taken 1 minute. So it certainly wasn't a lot of work in the grand scheme of things and probably did not deter the team from doing other important things.
Now it's done by an LLM to sell more LLMs services. Disclosure is botched to have the most sensational title so more click more upsell.
With that being said, I wouldn't mind if they made more sales on whatever they're advertising IF they followed the disclosure process well. A bad disclose immediately tells me I can't trust them because their moment in the light was more important that the safety of millions of boxes.
Then it's syndicate everywhere.
But all roads lead back to the domain.
I think we should be celebrating people hosting their own content on their own website instead of just posting on some social media site.
This is HUGE news, I would have skimmed over "Copy Fail".
The blog post might be a better place to link to also, it has more details on the exploit.
https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions
There are also some good threads on which distros are vulnerable and mitigations on the github page.
https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/issues