this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2024

246 points (98.8% liked)

Linux

6127 readers

307 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system

Also check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev

246

'Critical' vulnerability in OpenSSH uncovered, affects almost all Linux systems (www.computing.co.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

39 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah they were experimenting with 64bit exploitation when this signal handler got some focus regarding a (likely related) deadlock so they rushed to disclose their findings to the project to minimise the possibility of having eyes on this vulnerability