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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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How do you track security vulnerabilities? (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by unhinge@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Do you rely on mailing lists or news articles for security vulnerabilities? Please share.

I only got to know about xz/liblzma ^[1] and curl ^[2] ^[3] vulnerabilities through lemmy (maybe because of high severity?).

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[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Seeing my colleagues, I fear that the answer from them is "That's the neat part, you don't!"

[–] LastoftheDinosaurs@reddthat.com 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same here. Our servers are so out of date that we might not have a version of xz with any commits from Jia Tan at all.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 8 months ago

I don't think up-to-date Debian stable even got it before it was discovered. No prod servers should be affected