alt Hacker NewsAnyone relying on a 30+ year old monolith kernel written in C to not have some exploitable LPEs lurking should stay in basket weaving and out of sysadmin.
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itsthefrank • yesterday at 9:08 PM
Not sure why the snark but if people are running FreeBSD then they should be...basket weaving instead of using it? Yes, the correct solution is to patch and reboot but not everyone is in a place to jump and do that which is why a temp workaround, if possible, would be welcome
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yjftsjthsd-h • yesterday at 10:04 PM
...as opposed to what, exactly? Linux is a 34 y.o. monolithic kernel in C, the BSDs are all forked from the same base (386BSD) of around the same age, XNU is 29 years old (and also heavily based on BSD code while also throwing in mach code) in C and other languages,...
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Yep.
You should treat any system where non-admins regularly login as basically insecure/owned and rig your architecture appropriately.
TBH -- I don't have any of these kinds of boxes anymore. Who is really running anything like this in 2026 and for what purpose?