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Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] technohacker@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Generally yes. For many distros, the kernel signing key is with the distro maintainers and so the package comes with pre-signed kernel images. For distros like Arch and Gentoo, it's the user's responsibility to maintain the signing key and sign each updated kernel

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

So why can’t root add new keys?