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CVE-2021-22555 version check is broken #113

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One of the requirement checks for the kernel exploit CVE-2021-22555 is "ver<=5.12-rc6". The release candidate tag does not appear to be handled correctly resulting in false positives for higher version numbers.

This specifically occurred while running the Kali 2025.3 amd64 vmware workstation pro image.
There's some possibility this is also interacting strangely with the reported kernel version for that image: "6.12.38+kali". Though that kernel version appears to work fine with all other entries.

in order to reproduce just load up the vm image and download and run the script.

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