Controversial, maybe mis/disinformational FUD blog about Linux's lack of security

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An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.

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Controversial, maybe mis/disinformational FUD blog about Linux's lack of security #71

Closed danmanrana closed 2 years ago

danmanrana commented 2 years ago

Please pardon if this has been discussed before or if this blog has been debunked, but I'm asking just in case. I can remove this thread. Oddly enough, there is/was another article on it that outlines more of these perceived flaws but I can no longer find it. I bring this up in the first place just in case the blog points out things that we can 'patch' ourselves.

imthenachoman commented 2 years ago

The vulnerability is legit but for kernel versions 2.x to 4.8.3. Debian 11, for example, is using v5 of the kernel. So as long as you're on a newer/updated system you should be fine. Check what kernel version you are using.