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Let's see if this really affects all Linux systems or if the stars need to align for this to actually be exploitable.
I still remember hearing about a Ring 0 exploit in Windows (I may be misremembering, though) that required Ring 0 access. I think if an attacker has access to Ring 0, you’re already screwed anyway.
I agree, all this attention grabbing sound to me as if this is actually not a big deal. But we will see i guess.
A 9.9 is pretty bad no matter what. They wouldn't rank it almost a 10 if it was some obscure bug that is very hard to exploit.
With that being said it is hard to know without details