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[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

There's no actual vuln here is there? It's just a persistent backdoor that hides with some elf and kernel tricks.

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