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Since so many distros seem to lag a good ways behind on packages, and this vulnerability (in it's easiest exploited form) was introduced in kernel 5.8, it would

Since so many distros seem to lag a good ways behind on packages, and this vulnerability (in it's easiest exploited form) was introduced in kernel 5.8, it would seem a fair amount of Linux installs wouldn't actually be vulnerable to this. Is that somewhat correct?

bombcar 5y ago
Yes - ish. Depends on the distro. Ubuntu 20.04 has 5.4, for example, and I suspect many use that.