Comment on Linux security flaws Dirty Frag and Copy Fail are a good reminder to stay up to date
9point6@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, always keep your shit updated
But, that wouldn’t help here, this vulnerability was just dropped without fixes released in the past 12h or so
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which isn’t fixed?
9point6@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Basically all running versions of Linux.
Fixed versions (from here):
More detail from AWS: aws.amazon.com/security/…/2026-027-aws/
I’m not sure which distros have managed to build and release the new versions of the kernel yet
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I checked and my kernel version is a few patch versions back from the minor version you listed. Bummer.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I appreciate this! I had assumed everyone was pushing a fix soon if not already but you may be right that it’s sort of the opposite.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The fixes were supposed to be in place by the originally planned disclosure date in a week, however someone independently released details of the exploit so they were forced to disclose early and now we’ve got this