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CISA Sounds Alarm on Critical Sudo Flaw Actively Exploited in Linux and Unix Systems (thehackernews.com)

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Its funny because whenever I hear about something like this with foss it tends to be this way but when its proprietary I hear on how they were informed a while back, never patched it, and the founder of the bug is now disclosing based on the timetable they gave the. Feels that way anyway.