Really?

I thought it’s great, since those exploits didn’t just come from thin air. It would be bad if someone got their hands on a zero-day and managed to do something catastrophic, like shutting down airports, or blowing up a power plant.

Also, it’s not like they’re losing money over this.

These kind of exploits have always been common. The only thing that changed is people talking about them.

I fell it’s going to be a bad couple of months for everybody, not just Linux. It’s just with open source, it’s easier for the LLMs to find things that have been missed. And more open when they do because you can see the bug reports.

First, you break into the house, then you install an invisible backdoor, and then you can come and go freely.

It’s a “post-exploit” tool. It’s the persistent backdoor you install after you break in. It survives reboots, unlike most exploits.

The last couple were pretty serious. Just because local privilege escalations are pretty common doesn’t mean they aren’t bad.

I think it’s best to read the actual docs published by the research when available. News tells some, but I have seen it sensationalized a few times, where it only affects x kernel with y module before update z.

That being said, these are seemingly getting more and more frequent as previously noted.

It is a tool to establish persistente after the server is already hacked. This isn’t a way to break into a server.