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minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 days agoYes, 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
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 days agoBasically all running versions of Linux. Fixed versions (from here): 5.10.254 5.15.204 6.1.170 6.6.137 6.12.85 6.18.22 6.19.12 More detail from AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-027-aws/ I’m not sure which distros have managed to build and release the new versions of the kernel yet (if any). Most of the big ones have posted mitigations
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 days agoYeah I checked and my kernel version is a few patch versions back from the applicable minor version you listed. Bummer.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI 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.
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 days agoThe 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
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
Which isn’t fixed?
Basically all running versions of Linux.
Fixed versions (from here):
More detail from AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-027-aws/
I’m not sure which distros have managed to build and release the new versions of the kernel yet (if any). Most of the big ones have posted mitigations
Yeah I checked and my kernel version is a few patch versions back from the applicable minor version you listed. Bummer.
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.
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