CVE-2019-11815: The misinformation around this vulnerability and a brief analysis

By Sivanesh Ashok in Vulnerabilities on 24 May 2019

I, and probably you, first read about this vulnerability on the bleepingcomputer article or a Reddit post linking to that article. The article stated that all Linux kernels prior to 5.0.8 are vulnerable to RCE. So, is a huge part of the internet now vulnerable? I started looking…