Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?

Ubuntu has CVE-2026-98432 marked as a 9.8, but yet it&#x27;s coming up on a week with no update to fix it. It&#x27;s still marked as &quot;work in progress&quot; (though at least now they&#x27;ve listed a mitigation):<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;CVE-2026-98432<p>I&#x27;ve had mitigations in place for a week, but this response is really shaking my confidence in Ubuntu. I&#x27;m just trying to understand what is going on with Ubuntu. Do they have too many kernels (that page is loooong), do they not have enough automation in the build&#x2F;test pipeline, are their engineers overwhelmed?<p>We are moving into a world where there are going to be vastly more security issues; if you can&#x27;t keep up now, where are you going to be in the next 6 months?<p>For a long time keeping on top of OS updates has been a huge part of keeping the attackers at bay. However, the world is changing.