How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability

2026-05-15T07:24:08Z4ecaf34fefb7062b19022f6984fc9847272f7dfa0f969ff0047603fc3f02e13b
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What happened

A collection of Cloudflare blog posts (early 2026) covering incident response, new security features, and product updates. Key items include Cloudflare’s detection, mitigation, and confirmation of zero customer impact for the publicly disclosed “Copy Fail” Linux kernel privilege-escalation; fixes for request smuggling in Pingora OSS (Pingora 0.8.0); mitigation of an ACME certificate-validation bug; general availability of Post‑Quantum IPsec (hybrid ML‑KEM) with vendor interoperability; GA of AI Security for Apps and expanded client-side security; new tooling for non-human identities (scannable

Why it matters

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2026-05-15T07:24:08Z
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