[Security Advisory] CVE-2026-31431: Copy-fail vulnerability requires immediate mitigation on Nebius instances

A critical Linux vulnerability, CVE-2026-31431, known as "Copy-Fail," has been identified, allowing local unprivileged users to escalate privileges to root by exploiting the algif_aead kernel module without special permissions, affecting a wide range of Linux systems, including cloud environments and container workloads. Nebius services, like compute instances and Managed Kubernetes, are potentially impacted, and while mitigations have been applied to the latest managed images, users must take steps to secure existing instances or self-managed setups. For compute instances, the recommendation is to recreate them using the latest virtual machine images, or disable the vulnerable module in older images. In Managed Kubernetes, users are advised to recreate the nodes with the latest VM images or apply a DaemonSet configuration to mitigate the issue. Soperator clusters have received mitigations for managed versions, but self-service clusters require similar actions as Managed Kubernetes, and for containers and serverless endpoints, recreating or restarting them is recommended to maintain security.

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