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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: 9.9/10 security vulnerability affecting Linux (and others) set to
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Date: 28 Sep 2024 18:53:11 GMT
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On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:52:11 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> If this indeed solves the problem without compromising functionality,
> all the better. Considering how it was presented, it truly seemed like
> an issue whose solution involved crippling the operating system.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!  The tech world loves click 
generating headlines just as much as the MSM. Certainly vulnerabilities 
have been detected but most require quite a bit of conditions to be 
exploited. Meanwhile Ukrainian hackers find the real open doors.