Comment by dsr_
5 hours ago
It is built as a module in Debian.
lsmod shows it is not loaded on any of the Trixie or Bookworm machines I have checked, Intel or AMD.
5 hours ago
It is built as a module in Debian.
lsmod shows it is not loaded on any of the Trixie or Bookworm machines I have checked, Intel or AMD.
FYI it's dynamically loaded on demand, so lsmod will show it after you try run the exploit, or you can explicitly load it with:
The following mitigation (from the article) does work for Debian 12 and 13, I've tested this:
First line blocks it from loading, second line is unloading it if it's already been loaded. You can test with the same "modprobe algif_aead".