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Kernel-hack-drill and exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel

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239 points r4um | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 06:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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charcircuit ◴[03 Sep 25 09:05 UTC] No.45113673[source]▶
>Convinced the path forward would be painful, I shelved the bug.

As opposed to fixing the bug? Either the incentives are broken for security researchers to fix bugs, contributing fixes to Linux is broken, or both.

A rewrite of these user interactable subsystems in Rust can't come soon enough.

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1. rs_rs_rs_rs_rs ◴[03 Sep 25 10:02 UTC] No.45114005[source]▶
>As opposed to fixing the bug?

God forbid someone does something for fun...