Post #2067624
2026-05-01 06:28 UTC
Canonical/Ubuntu major outage on the same day as Copy Fail seems not great:
"Component 'Ubuntu Security API - CVEs' and a few other components are Down", currently at 14 hours (apparently DDoS).
"a few other components" being Livepatch API, Ubuntu Security API - Notices, canonical.com, launchpad.net, ubuntu.com, and several others.
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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social 2026-05-01 07:01
@ctoney@fosstodon.org Just wondering the same. Seems Ubuntu LTS remains non-fixed? Ubuntu's grandmother Debian seems on top of things. Tested the oft cited PoC (https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/blob/main/copy_fail_exp.py) on patched 6.12.85+deb13-amd64 for Trixie: ``` root@cake:~# su - eat eat@cake:~$ vim foo.py eat@cake:~$ cat foo.py | python3 && su Password: su: Authentication failure Password: ```