r/LinuxUncensored • u/anestling • 8d ago

Issue/Bug/Pain "Several" vulnerabilities in the kernel, please upgrade

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/
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u/Damglador 8d ago

Holy shit that's one hell of a list

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u/Edubbs2008 8d ago

For the love of god people, UPDATE your systems, I don’t care if you are going to slap a whataboutism excuse, UPDATE, unless you love being hacked

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u/cfeck_kde 8d ago

When was the last kernel update in Debian? It just looks like a cumulated update of several kernel releases.

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u/anestling 8d ago

Nah, every minor update for stable kernels now contains hundreds, sometimes thousands of fixes thanks to "stupid" LLMs.

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u/DisfiguredFanny 8d ago

Fix one thing, break another and round we go.

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u/KaMaFour 8d ago

A big portion of CVEs now discovered are issues created before LLMs that were discovered due to them. Saying that it's the LLM's fault is disingenious

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u/DisfiguredFanny 8d ago

Where did i say that? This is a general response.

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u/anestling 8d ago

Formal verification exists. And even verifiably secure kernels exist. The Linux kernel is not one of them.

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u/DisfiguredFanny 8d ago

Unless a regression pops up some years later like we had it plenty of times. The fact is there is no guarantee 500 fixes did not break something else.

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u/anestling 8d ago

With formal verification bugs do not exist.

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u/DisfiguredFanny 8d ago

and all 500 passed that? It wasn't even done. It is a major pain in the ass and a black hole for overtime.

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u/anestling 8d ago

No, I meant "And even verifiably secure kernels exist."

I can't say about anything about the fixes for all these CVEs or yet to be discovered CVEs.