Post #2181690

2026-05-07 21:55 UTC

Well shit. I wonder if all Linux systems are affected, the testing in the repo doesn’t cover Arch for instance. For now I’d assume the answer is yes.

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@CameronDev@programming.dev 2026-05-07 22:16

Its a kernel exploit, so probably. But I just checked my arch installs,and I don’t have any of the kernel modules loaded. Loading requires root anyway, so I think this may be fairly limited in reality?

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@Remus86@lemmy.zip 2026-05-07 23:02

I also just verified it worked on my Arch install. But running the mitigation command and rebooting effectively blocked it, and I’m on the Arch LTS kernel. I think the disabled modules are related to IPSec, which most desktop users don’t really need.

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@CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 22:27

Yea it works on arch, I just tested on my own PC: OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: Linux 7.0.3-arch1-2 ❯ ./exp [root@arch dirtyfrag]# ls README.md assets exp exp.c [root@arch dirtyfrag]# whoami root I updated it last week. Edit: I just ran yay -Suy to update everything and still works.

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