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Re: A quartet of Linux local root vulns: DirtyAH6, PPPoEject, TUNderflow, and DiagSpill

lowoss_secPublished 2026-09-18

<p>Posted by Kevin Riggle on Sep 18</p>Would it be as conceptually straightforward on the distro side as<br /> breaking most of these less-common modules out into their own<br /> packages, e.g. linux-module-pppoe, linux-module-sctp, etc?<br /> <br /> It would add an extra step of installing the kernel module for anyone<br /> who wanted to use one of these protocols, but as you say Hanno it<br /> w

Original source: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/825