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📰 Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports

The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Taint-Forced-Bind

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-Taint-Forced-Bind
Phoronix Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag 'TAINT_FORCED_BIND' to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations.
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