Compilling my own kernel to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200

This week has honestly been a doozy, I'm not just talking about the... "socio-economic climate"¹ we find ourselves in, but in this week, we've seen two low-privilege escalation bugs, DirtyFrag and CopyFail.

Whenever you hear of a security vulnerability, you've got to first assess if you're impacted at all, that ought to decide the rate at which you should be patching and mitigating these vulnerabilities.

You can't treat every bug as a disaster, because some bugs require specific conditions, these two security vulnerabilities are truly awful, but not for me thankfully. If you were administering a large shared box, like for instance, a tilde instance where you couldn't trust your users, then I'd be panicking!

Server on The Penguin Bunker

Compilling my own kernel to prevent security vulnerabilities.