Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions

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Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions

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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours ago

Ubuntu and RHEL lack fixes for a Linux TCP use-after-free that Anthropic says it exploited to run commands as root on MPTCP servers.

Every Go application since 1.24 will activate MPTCP on their sockets by default.

And I’ve read that this includes Syncthing, which is why I’m posting this here

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