On 2026-05-16 Greg Manning via Roundtable wrote:
Should a simple Mint user 21.3 Kernel 6.8.1-117 like myself be worried about the above ??
If you share a box with untrusted people, then yes. This lets any local user get root. If it's just you on your box, then the worst it does is let a hacker who gets local user access get root. But if they already have local user access, you're in a very vulnerable position already. It's a whole new class of bug, just like Spectre/etc was when it first came out. So now they'll find 10 bugs that are of this new class -- just like Spectre. Then they'll all get patched and we can move on. As for your particular distro: is it a supported version? Are they giving updates? Then update, reboot, and be happy. If it's an unsupported version then upgrade immediately. Never run an unupdated OS connected to the internet.