Part 736 from "backports backfiring":
""LPE via refcount imbalance in the af_unix of #Ubuntu’s #Kernel
[…] #Linux replaced its garbage collection algorithm […] On top of the new gc, a new change is introduced […] Ubuntu 24.04’s kernel, which is based on 6.8.12, uses the old GC algorithm. Thus, the change to unix_gc does not apply (the upstream patch is for the new GC algorithm). But somehow #Ubuntu still went with it and applied the change to […]""
https://ssd-disclosure.com/lpe-via-refcount-imbalance-in-the-af_unix-of-ubuntus-kernel/
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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
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