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Huawei HKSP Introduces Trivially Exploitable Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel

Huawei has seemingly stepped its foot into the kernel self-protection game with the release of HKSP. Absent any threat model and riddled with weaknesses, it also introduces a trivially exploitable local root vulnerability due to a complete lack of defensive programming.
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