How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability
2026-05-14T19:24:11Z•0887b161c494b78ccd351135a5070ac342e59c566fdd839b160d2f448dc5b8ef
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What happened
Collection of recent Cloudflare security blog posts covering incident response, product security updates, and research. Key items include Cloudflare's response and mitigation for the critical Linux kernel “Copy Fail” privilege-escalation vulnerability (no customer impact observed), general availability of post-quantum hybrid IPsec, a post-quantum roadmap targeting 2029, fixes for request smuggling in the open-source Pingora ingress proxy, remediation of an ACME certificate-validation issue, a record-setting DDoS threat report, new API/Web vulnerability scanning and client-side security tooling
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- cloudflare_security_blog
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- 0887b161c494b78ccd351135a5070ac342e59c566fdd839b160d2f448dc5b8ef
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- 2026-05-14T19:24:11Z
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- Yes
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