• [$] Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Fri Jun 6 15:00:07 2025
    [$] Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs

    Date:
    Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:57:58 +0000

    Description:
    The 6.16 kernel will include a number of changes to how the kernel handles
    the processing of core dumps for crashed processes. Christian Brauner explained his reasons for doing this work as: " Because I'm a clown and also
    I had
    it with all the CVEs because we provide a **** API for userspace ". The handling of core dumps has indeed been a constant source of
    vulnerabilities; with luck, the 6.16 work will result in rather fewer of
    them in the future.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1024160/


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