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Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

In general the users should not worry about kernel vulnerabilites because of the built in security in Linux and because the desktop is a much smaller target.

As other people write: Keep to trusted sources (like your distributions own repo) and you should be all right.

It's the Linux servers that should take note and apply patches.