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'Critical' vulnerability in OpenSSH uncovered, affects almost all Linux systems (www.computing.co.uk)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They have named this vulnerability "regreSSHion", since it represents the re-emergence of a bug that was previously patched in 2006

That's a great name

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Agreed, but I had to disable autocorrect to type it on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Playful and descriptive!