On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 03:45, Johnny Strom wrote: > Hi all > > It seems that there is a security issue in the kernel, > I don't know if RH 7.x kernels are effected. > > Here is more info and a patch: > > http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/current-updates/duplicate-pid-fix-2.4.23.patch > > So is your contention that someone could: 1. exhaust all pids 2. run a program that would never be able to be killed >From reading the explanation that is the only way this could be seen as a security issue. Even so it seems like a pretty obscure one. -sv
