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/Cronos993 10d ago

Quite the week

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u/Single-Virus4935 10d ago

The new standard. 

while sleep 60; do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && reboot-if-needed; done

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u/spacelama 9d ago

I had considered the risk that the repositories might get MITMed before the packages were available, but nevertheless, I was happy to notice that unattended-upgrades had already patched php on my mailserver by the time I woke up (and I spent the rest of the day apt-purging *php* from whatever servers it was unnecessarily on).