Hello Friends
For your consideration Dirty Frag vulnerability
For the admin(s)
Is possible create a new section/category named “Security” and move all the respective posts?
Best to all!
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Done!
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Hi @sourav,
Seems to have a loop here. I click on your link and it takes me to the new thread.
I click on the new topic and it brings me back here.
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Yet another security concern. This is number 3.
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Thanks for that @sourav
Consider to move this one too
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Do these touch home users on Linux or just servers ?
Would all versions (debian etc) be infected ?
Are these things a firewall would prevent ?
Should more scans by clamav etc be needed ?
Not just the one Howard pointed out but the others… I like the new category on security but question who is infected or effected by these things.
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In general I welcome that new category. However I dare to hope that it wont be a simple dump-hole for infos I already know from elsewhere.
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From what I read on the article, home users should not be impacted.
“It means a local user could gain superuser (root) privileges.” and maybe
“patched Linux kernels are available by May 14”.
It was interesting to me in that you hardly ever hear about a security concern with Linux and now we had 3 within 2 weeks.
As far as I can tell, most of these security concerns are for servers.
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This may be more of an issue for servers, but even home computers can be exposed to the outside world via the Internet. It doesn’t hurt to disable the modules that are affected until a formal update fixing the issue comes through.
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AI is exposing Linux security holes faster than developers can patch them
Well that may help. We dont need to rewrite in Rust any more… just clean up the C code using AI.
I am not sure Rust would have helped with the bugs mentioned here anyway… they are programmer oversights not coding deficiencies.
That is not always possible in the kernel. … only if the bug is confined to a non-vital module
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