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Check out the Gameplay Reveal Trailer for The Sinking City 2, a third-person action Lovecraftian horror shooter developed by Frogwares. Players will head straight for the flooded city of Arkham during the roaring '20s. Explore the drenched city alleys, face eldritch monsters, and descend into the madness of the city. The Sinking City 2 is launching in Summer 2026 for PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam).

Context: https://lemmy.world/post/46577685/23626287

Dogs of C-Kennel By Mick and Mason Mastroianni : https://www.gocomics.com/dogsofckennel/2026/05/06

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46310739

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46310733

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root.

The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori.

"An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root," the vulnerability research team at Xint.io and Theori said.

At its core, the vulnerability stems from a logic flaw in the Linux kernel's cryptographic subsystem, specifically within the algif_aead module. The issue was introduced in a source code commit made in August 2017.

Successful exploitation of the shortcoming could allow a simple 732-byte Python script to edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017, including Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The Python exploit involves four steps -

• Open an AF_ALG socket and bind to authencesn(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes))
• Construct the shellcode payload
• Trigger the write operation to the kernel's cached copy of "/usr/bin/su"
• Call execve("/usr/bin/su") to load the injected shellcode and run it as root

While the vulnerability is not remotely exploitable in isolation, a local unprivileged user can get root simply by corrupting the page cache of a setuid binary. The same primitive also has cross-container impacts as the page cache is shared across all processes on a system.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46310733

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root.

The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori.

"An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root," the vulnerability research team at Xint.io and Theori said.

At its core, the vulnerability stems from a logic flaw in the Linux kernel's cryptographic subsystem, specifically within the algif_aead module. The issue was introduced in a source code commit made in August 2017.

Successful exploitation of the shortcoming could allow a simple 732-byte Python script to edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017, including Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The Python exploit involves four steps -

• Open an AF_ALG socket and bind to authencesn(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes))
• Construct the shellcode payload
• Trigger the write operation to the kernel's cached copy of "/usr/bin/su"
• Call execve("/usr/bin/su") to load the injected shellcode and run it as root

While the vulnerability is not remotely exploitable in isolation, a local unprivileged user can get root simply by corrupting the page cache of a setuid binary. The same primitive also has cross-container impacts as the page cache is shared across all processes on a system.

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PS. This is not a critique to Debian-based distros. And i'm not suggesting you to skip Ubintu for Arch either. Arch is a bit advanced and not too easy to new users, so that won't do for some people...

... just install Linux Mint instead.

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Warner Bros.’ bizarre 2023 decision to shelve its live-action/animated film, Coyote vs. Acme, sparked outrage both in the industry and among fans online. But the film is finally being released, and Ketchup Entertainment, its new distributor, recently released the trailer. All I can say after watching that trailer is, what the heck was Warner Bros. even thinking? Granted, a killer trailer doesn’t automatically mean it’s a great film, but all the winning elements are here.

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