Walt Mankowski via plug on 14 Aug 2025 06:34:55 -0700


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: [PLUG] Full Kernel-Level Control from Chrome Sandbox


On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 01:07:24PM +0000, Rich Freeman via plug wrote:
> It wouldn't be the first time I saw a lot of security news over an issue
> that was fixed a long time ago.  Honestly, I can't really be bothered to go
> track down the actual commits and where it was fixed in each kernel branch
> since either way everything I own was fixed either weeks or months ago. 
> Zero days that require scrambling definitely do happen, but most news
> disclosures happen after issues are fixed via normal updates.

For most of these sorts of things, I think most of the scrambling
happens by the package and distro maintainers. The rest of us just
need to be vigilant about keeping our security updates up-to-date.

Walt
___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group         --        http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug