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From: pa@see.signature.invalid (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: copy.fail
Date: Sat, 2 May 2026 21:46:24 -0000 (UTC)
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Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

> By the way, what is the patch status of this problem?  My reading of some
> of the posts upthread is that it is always patched (fixed) in some
> kernels/distros.  Is that correct?

Depends on the distro. If you compile your own kernels, just get
a recent one from kernel.org .

For what it's worth, on Gentoo I just switched to 6.18.26 and
the vulnerability is patched. (6.18.18 was vulnerable.)

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