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Re:Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting m... by DeusExMachina on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:33PM (#27039451)
It's not clear from the article, but my reading is that while the bug was introduced 12 years ago, it was discovered and fixed only now.

Which is different from knowing about it but ignoring it for 12 years.

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Re:Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting m... by afrcnc on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:27PM (#27044132)
they actually ignored it only 2 years: https://twitter.com/aionescu/status/1389713670138073089
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Re:Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting m... by antibuddy on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:21PM (#27040011)
I'd infer from the CVE naming (CVE-2021-21551) that it was discovered this year.
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Re:Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting m... by dspillett on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:48PM (#27044321)
It was publicly documented by the people generating those codes this year.

It could have been discovered quite some time before that, and going by some tweets already posted (caveat: I've not verified anything here) some parts of it at least we're noticed, and Dell notified about them, in 2019.

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