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Don't know about apple, but on linux you can live patch a running kernel with security updates (kpatch/ksplice/...).

• saagarjha 2y ago
  Right, which means that an attacker can trick your kernel into patching itself to do something malicious.
  • dizhn 2y ago
    And automatic periodical reboots give hackers the piece they were missing. :)