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CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (www.neowin.net)

submitted 2 years ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, it supports kernel modules, so is also vulnerable to bad third party kernel code.

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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

🤔if nobody makes a third party kernel module, then there is still no risk

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Security through apathy!

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[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

Also, even if they do, you can choose to not load it.

It amused me that so many people had this installed, but had no idea what it was for.

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