Re: 9.9/10 security vulnerability affecting Linux (and others) set to be revealed on October 6th

On 2024-09-26, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-09-26 12:03 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-09-26, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Worse than Heartbleed, Meltdown or Spectre. According to a GitHub
developer:
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"From a generic security point of view, a whole Linux system as it is
nowadays is just an endless and hopeless mess of security holes waiting
to be exploited." (kind of like Chris Ahlstrom's body)
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<https://cybersecuritynews.com/critical-unauthenticated-rce-flaw/>

 
Yet another "catastrophic" Linux security threat that will be fixed within
days.

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They're working on it and so far coming up with no way of fixing it. I
wouldn't be surprised if there is no solution by October 6th. If that is
the case, you just know that bad actors will be attacking Linux
relentlessly from October 7th on. This looks like the real deal. 9.9/10
is pretty serious when you consider that the aforementioned issues were
rated between 5 and 7 on 10.

We'll see. I've seen these "horror stories" come and go in the past. Maybe
I'm wrong this time.

You realize that Cyber Security News makes their case for existence by
hyperventilating about potential "catastrophic" security threats, right?

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Perhaps, but the developers on GitHub have been freaking out as well to
a point that Lunduke felt it necessary to bring this problem to light.
Those developers are usually arrogant about their ability to fix such
issues, not this time.

Okay, If I'm lulled into a false sense of security than I guess I'll be
wrong.

Still not particularly worried about it though.

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