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@Jesus_666 @kamstrup its my understanding that this actually hasn’t been patched in most distributions. The ubuntu statement says they released mitigations and disabled the kernel module affected but that patches will be released. according to a post on linkedin made yesterday and a video attached to it demonstrating the exploit on a current kali release it hasnt been fixed