How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability
2026-05-17T07:24:04Z•673d01aec0fb3fd294af3ed3284d801e8706023f9023dbaacbeab495f0c1939e
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What happened
Collection of Cloudflare blog posts (early 2026) covering incident response, product releases, and research. Highlights: Cloudflare’s response and fleet-wide mitigations for the “Copy Fail” Linux kernel privilege escalation (confirmed zero customer impact/no exploitation); Pingora OSS request-smuggling fixes (Pingora 0.8.0); mitigation for a Cloudflare ACME certificate-validation logic vulnerability; GA release of post-quantum hybrid IPsec (interoperable with Cisco and Fortinet) and a roadmap targeting full post-quantum coverage by 2029; large-scale DDoS trends (record 31.4 Tbps attack) and a
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- 2026-05-17T07:24:04Z
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