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A public outing of severe and unfixed Linux kernel vulnerabilities should have you thinking of updating your SteamOS or other distros to beta branches (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 62 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

This article is more than little silly, at least for the target audience. These security vulnerabilities are of great concern to system administrators, but it's overblown to say that Linux gamers everywhere need to worry about these. The two remote code execution vulnerabilities are only a concern if you're running a ksmbd server. Who's running a Windows-protocol file server on their Steam Deck?? C'mon now...

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  • [–] 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Beat me to it, what exactly is the attack vector on my Steam Deck that mostly sleeps and is on a limited segment behind my firewall and is only used for games 🙄

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    It is also not immediately dangerous to run ksmbd, as 99.9% of users aren't exposing a SMB share to the internet. Most of them will be shared through a LAN at most, and even on enterprise solutions they're only accessed through a VPN.

    It's definitely an issue for lateral movement through a network once it's infected, but that's not something regular users should worry about, for the most part.

    Of course, apply the patch once it's available, but yeah, this is mostly a nothingburger.

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    • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Run the stable branch of something that's used in servers. So Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL-equivalents. Ubuntu with the free ESM sounds pretty good right now. Keep unattended security updates on. Reboot often.

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    [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The headline seems to be predicated on the assumption that stable branches receive fixes faster.

    I'm not convinced that this holds true, does anyone know?

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    • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Luckily the list of vulnerabilities mentioned here not being patched ASAP won't make me lose any sleep.

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    "a little worrisome" is understating it by a lot

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