Re:CopyFail was not disclosed to Gentoo developer
by wang_li on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:25PM
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There is an alternative mitigation you can use which blacklists the function calls when the affected code is not built as a kernel module.
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Re:CopyFail was not disclosed to Gentoo developer
by vaylian on Friday May 01, 2026 @01:46AM
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> alternative mitigation you can use
That's besides the point. If people use the official mitigation on https://copy.fail/#mitigation they will not sufficiently protect themselves on mainstream distros like Ubuntu and Debian.
The page also states
> Most major distributions are shipping the fix now.
This text was probably prepared in advance, but this was simply not true at the time of publication.