Not if you keep updating your system. Security Researchers are the "white hats" of the computer software industry, their job is to find bugs before bad guys do. Most times in the free/open source software world bugs are fixed amazingly fast. The fact that this bug is announced means bad guys are probably working on an exploit (if they haven't already) so be sure to always install updates. On Debian/Ubuntu derivations simply run "sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades; sudo unattended-upgrades" and you'll have automatically installed security updates. Jason
On 05/16/2026 4:04 PM CDT Greg Manning via Roundtable <roundtable@muug.ca> wrote:
Greg Manning <a31ford@gmail.com mailto:a31ford@gmail.com>
https://www.zdnet.com/article/third-major-linux-kernel-flaw-in-two-weeks-fou...
Should a simple Mint user 21.3 Kernel 6.8.1-117 like myself be worried about the above ??
Greg Manning
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