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'Critical' vulnerability in OpenSSH uncovered, affects almost all Linux systems (www.computing.co.uk)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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