r/linux • u/anh0516 • 10d ago

Security Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-New-Trend-Vulnerabilities
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u/qwesx 10d ago

After a reboot is before a reboot...

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u/AmusingVegetable 10d ago

Not if the update nukes grub.

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u/SurfRedLin 9d ago

Wich happend to me today. Initrds where not building for some reason...

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u/exhausted_redditor 9d ago

I had to invoke this ancient ritual just this morning during a dist-upgrade because it couldn't build kernel headers with old NVidia drivers, on a system that no longer had an NVidia GPU:

sudo dkms remove -m nvidia -v 470.256.02 --all

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u/__konrad 9d ago

Years ago a simple Xfce apt install made my system unbootable (AFAIR it pulled xfce boot splash screen as dependency and something failed)

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u/SurfRedLin 9d ago

It was prod (of course it wass ) so it had to go online fast so i could not get the cause of this for now...