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A discovered vulnerability for privilage escalation https://thehackernews.com/2023/07/researchers-uncover-new-linux-kernel.html?m=1

If system security is the most important criteria above everything else, switch to using BSD.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Why isn't this top comment lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I'd like to know is, how can I find out when these kernel patches came or will come to something like Ubuntu or CentOS or SLES?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

switch to using BSD

TempleOS has always been the answer, no vulnerabilities as it can't even connect to the internet

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

They hated him because he spoke the truth

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Can't have a privilege escalation when there are no privileges, since every process runs in the same address space in ring 0.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Who needs the internet when you have a direct connection to His Kingdom.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it apparently has a Moses simulator or something like that

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If system security is the most important criteria above everything else, switch to using BSD.

nice bait mate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After reading this i immediately switched to BSD.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BSD boosterism is a meme, I know, but honestly this is the incorrect take.

Anything as large and complicated as a kernel has bugs. Some of those bugs may be security related. If security is your concern, you want to use the kernel which has people actively publishing those bugs so they can be patched.

The fact you haven't seen privilege escalation vulnerabilities in BSD isn't necessarily because they aren't there. We don't know that. What we do know is that not as many people are looking.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

The fact you haven’t seen privilege escalation vulnerabilities in BSD isn’t necessarily because they aren’t there.

aka 'absence of proof isn't proof of absence'.

[–] YonatanAvhar 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you switch your OS every time a vulnerability is discovered in it? You'd run out of OSs really fast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's the goal of OpenBSD, to prioritize security and actively find ways to crack or break OpenBSD in order to consistently harden it to the point that people at DEFCON conferences have given up trying to hack it due to being such a lengthy process each time only to fail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Switch to using BSD

As a person who was using OpenBSD as a main driver for 2 years, yeah it's got it's benefits and the like. But I'll stick to Parabola anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trippy. I was just tempted to make a post asking about how hard it would be in rust to make a program with high end security and privacy. I decided not to, but then starting to wonder if memory could be put onto the swap file and then edited, and they this post showed up. I thought clearly, without a doubt they would make the swap system near perfect and i shouldn't worry about that. haha

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