A discovered vulnerability for privilage escalation https://thehackernews.com/2023/07/researchers-uncover-new-linux-kernel.html?m=1

If system security is the most important criteria above everything else, switch to using BSD.

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What I’d like to know is, how can I find out when these kernel patches came or will come to something like Ubuntu or CentOS or SLES?

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Opencve.

Also, just hook up to yum and keep that test VM set updating daily.

EL has been so stable that I’ve had a good portion of the herd cron-yumming for about 20 years now. It’s gone about 2% to shit since systemd and networkmangler and other useless fridge art, but it’s still the easiest method to avoid 95% of problems.

You may not like the numbers, but 7 THOUSAND consecutive successful update runs is a decent enough track record for me. Make sure to needs-rebooting&&reboot on a decent schedule.

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