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Linux Magazine | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 New Linux vulnerability in the GNU C library that can lead to privilege escalation  #LooneyTunabl...
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Tom | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @285f3e64 Fixed in debian about 24 hours ago.
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Taggart :donor: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A note on fuzzing: although we discovered this buffer overflow manually, we later tried to fuzz t...
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Tom | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @663e5b60 https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=1056e5b4c3f2d90ed2b4a55f96add28da2f4c8fa

Gotta wait for it to flow to all the distro's. I guess that's one downside to opensource computing.
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Tom | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @663e5b60 Looks like there it is on Debian Sid

https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/111/173/557/331/576/852/original/750d550fd379d23c.png
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ricardo :mastodon: | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 Upgrade to #LMDE6 from #LMDE5 [Tutorial] :linuxmintnew:
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Tom | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @1078d489 Huh, interesting that you can't just update the repo's in apt. The upgrade went fine last week and the system showed LMDE6... but now I run the mintupgrade app it's not recognising the upgrade and wants to perform it itself. Wonder what else changed.
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Nick @ The Linux Experiment | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 I decided to play Starfield even though it looked like Fallout 4 in space (not a good thing, I di...
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Tom | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @39c11d1e Hopefully they are saving their new engine for TES6