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Is it?
Well the exploit in the CVE needs the kernel function.
And it's disabled as default since 6.2.
my ubuntu 22 AWS VM only got 6.2 in september, and I haven't rebooted yet so it's still on 5.15. probably tons of desktops and servers are still using < 6.2
Which is why they said "modern" kernels. LTS systems are usually not going for modern. :)
we can disagree on the definition of modern.
That's true. It varies from person to person. I, for example, am an Arch user, so modern for me is only around a year or so. Ubuntu 22.04 is old in my eyes, mostly because a newer LTS was released after it.
You might define Ubuntu 22.04 as new, because it's still fully supported.
It's just a question of how you define modern/recent.
Well, “modern” is a relative term, so that might not have been a good pick...