Linux security flaws Dirty Frag and Copy Fail are a good reminder to stay up to date

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GamingBot@lemmy.zip · 14 hours ago

Linux security flaws Dirty Frag and Copy Fail are a good reminder to stay up to date

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 10 hours 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 · edit-2 9 hours 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 situation