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Comment by alecco

3 hours ago

People are blaming the guy who wrote the exploit for breaking the embargo but it was actually broken in Linux by publishing a fix [1]:

> on 2026-05-05 Steffen Klassert pushed f4c50a4034 to netdev/net.git with Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org.

Once a fix is out it's usual for researchers to race to make the first exploit out of it.

[1] https://afflicted.sh/blog/posts/copy-fail-2.html

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