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Linux 6.7 Reworks PE Header Generation to Reduce Attack Area
- Karellen 3y agoWhat on earth is Linux doing with generating Windows binary (PE) headers? ...oh, EFI boot stuff. Almost forgot it's all FAT filesystems and PE binaries. That'll be an interesting bit of greyhair lore on Linux systems 40 years from now...
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- justinclift 3y agoCould be both, and/or vary over time. ;)
- usr1106 3y agoDo I get it right that big distros like Ubuntu don't run this code because they use grub instead? Or does EFI grub still invoke that code path once it boots the kernel?