cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
If the PS5 is based off of Linux
I don’t think it is though? After a few seconds searching I don’t see anything conclusive but PS4’s OS was based on FreeBSD so I would guess PS5’s probably is also.
Sony does have some experience shipping Linux products, though, (eg Linux for PS2) and has surely contributed to it a little.
But still listing year’s old vulnerabilities that got fixed long ago because they are still supporting ancient stuff like 5.10LTS is Debian-specific.
The advisory this meme is about only relates to the 6.12 kernel in Debian 13 “trixie” (Debian’s current stable release), and 1,295 of these 1,313 CVEs are from 2026.
Linux 6.12 is the SLTS (“super long-term support”) release from 2024, so the Linux Foundation’s Civil Infrastructure Platform plans to continue backporting security fixes to it until 2035.
Debian stopped supporting Debian 11 “bullseye” (the one with a 5.10 kernel) in August, but that kernel is also an SLTS which CIP plans to support until 2031.
So, no, continuing support for these kernels is not something Debian-specific.
Here are the versions of linux-image-amd64 in Debian currently:
bullseye (oldoldstable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
5.10.262-1 [security]: amd64
bookworm (oldstable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
6.1.187-1 [security]: amd64
bookworm-backports (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
6.12.95-1~bpo12+1: amd64
trixie (stable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
6.12.111-1 [security]: amd64
trixie-backports (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
7.1.13-1~bpo13+1: amd64
forky (testing) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
7.2.8-1: amd64
sid (unstable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
7.2.8-1: amd64
Debian problems I guess
Not really; the Linux kernel has had 8500 CVEs so far this year (according to this).
Most of them aren’t actually known to be definitely-exploitable security bugs, but some are. You can read more about how Linux issues CVEs from this post on Greg Kroah-Hartman’s website: Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know (and/or watch one of his talks on the subject which is linked from there).
See also this article from July: Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days: Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports.
Yes, probably not all but certainly most bugs being found now are.