Ubuntu and RHEL lack fixes for a Linux TCP use-after-free that Anthropic says it exploited to run commands as root on MPTCP servers.
  • cron@feddit.org
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    10 days ago

    Red Hat’s CVE page rates the flaw Moderate, scoring it 5.9 because the race is hard to win. It says the most likely result is a kernel crash, with memory corruption possible in theory, and that “no confidentiality or integrity impact has been demonstrated.”

    Oh thats great, it only crashes the kernel. /s