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On the upside they are helping secure Linux because now the the appropriate action can be taken to prevent this in future.
I'm sure a security patch has already been released. The Linux community normally addresses these things very quickly.
There's no actual vuln here is there? It's just a persistent backdoor that hides with some elf and kernel tricks.