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There’s a design problem here if the driver can’t be self-contained in such a way that it’s possible to roll back the kernel to a known good state.



How so? Preventing roll-backs on software updates is a "security feature" in most cases for better and for worse. Yeah, it would be convenient for tinkerers or in rare events such as these, but would be a security issue in the 99,9..99% of the time for enterprise users where security is the main concern.


I don't really understand this, many Linux distributions like Universal Blue advertise rollbacks as a feature. How is preventing a roll-back a "security feature"?


Imagine a driver has an exploitable vulnerability that is fixed in an update. If an attacker can force a rollback to the vulnerable older version, then the system is still vulnerable. Disallowing the rollback fixes this.


ohh




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