Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
by seba_dos1 on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:27AM
(#48059837)
One. "Copy Fail 2" and "Dirty Frag" are the same thing.
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Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
by Brian_K_White on Friday May 08, 2026 @06:26AM
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And consideing the size of the kenel, I call this stupendously good.
You (anyone, not you personally) write that much code yourself and let's see how well you did in comparison.
Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
by pixl97 on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:34PM
(#48067005)
But that's the attacker advantage. You can do things right a billion times and one mistake will still take you down.
Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
by bigiain on Saturday May 09, 2026 @01:07AM
(#48071992)
Are you sure? I'd really like that to be true, I felt bad finishing up work on Friday evening having applied the Dirty Frag mitigation to all our instances, but knowing (thinking?) the Copy Fail 2 vulnerability was still exploitable.
Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
by seba_dos1 on Saturday May 09, 2026 @04:39AM
(#48073216)
Technically there are two things that need to be fixed in the kernel indeed (and one of them was fixed already), but they're both under the "Dirty Frag" umbrella and the proposed mitigation to not allow the affected modules to load applies to them both.