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On May 1, Red Hat highlighted intelligent remediation for application workloads on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a managed service where Red Hat oversees OpenShift availability, allowing customers to focus on business-critical aspects. Also on May 1, Red Hat stated that updated kernel packages would soon be available to resolve a Linux kernel flaw (CVE-2026-31431) that allows for local privilege escalation. This follows news from April 30 that the critical Linux flaw (CVE-2026-31431) enables local users to gain root access on vulnerable systems, affecting a wide range of environments from desktop machines to cloud stacks, hospital servers, school networks, and government systems. Earlier on April 30, Red Hat also discussed confidential computing to address the tension between using AI and cloud services while adhering to strict privacy mandates like digital sovereignty. This approach aims to protect data in use by encrypting it in system memory during processing, addressing risks beyond data at rest and in transit. Previously on April 30, an eBPF program workaround for CVE-2026-31431, designed to filter or kill programs attempting to create AF_ALG sockets (except for root), was open-sourced and internally tested on RHEL-based distributions.
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