2y ago

New Linux kernel vulnerability

New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered. StackRot (CVE-2023-3269) opens doors to unauthorized elevated privileges.

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

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If system security is the most important criteria above everything else, switch to using BSD.
nice bait mate.
- After reading this i immediately switched to BSD.

BSD boosterism is a meme, I know, but honestly this is the incorrect take.
Anything as large and complicated as a kernel has bugs. Some of those bugs may be security related. If security is your concern, you want to use the kernel which has people actively publishing those bugs so they can be patched.
The fact you haven't seen privilege escalation vulnerabilities in BSD isn't necessarily because they aren't there. We don't know that. What we do know is that not as many people are looking.
- The fact you haven’t seen privilege escalation vulnerabilities in BSD isn’t necessarily because they aren’t there.
  aka 'absence of proof isn't proof of absence'.

So you switch your OS every time a vulnerability is discovered in it? You'd run out of OSs really fast
- That's the goal of OpenBSD, to prioritize security and actively find ways to crack or break OpenBSD in order to consistently harden it to the point that people at DEFCON conferences have given up trying to hack it due to being such a lengthy process each time only to fail.

If system security is the most important criteria above everything else, switch to using BSD.
Jingoism aside, anyone running enterprise Linux is also not affected.
So calm down. It's just the "concept car" versions affected, and your work shouldn't be calling you for anything.

Switch to using BSD
As a person who was using OpenBSD as a main driver for 2 years, yeah it's got it's benefits and the like. But I'll stick to Parabola anyway.

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