Re: Heads up on local root escalation

[Keith Keller <kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2014-05-12, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> According to the upstream BZ 1094232, there is a patch from kernel.org:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git/commit/?h=tty-linus&id=4291086b1f081b869c6d79e5b7441633dc3ace00

Actually, I was wondering about mitigation along the lines of
blacklisting a module, tuning a sysctl parameter, or some other
mitigation that wouldn't require a new kernel.  Perhaps such mitigation
isn't even possible with this issue.

--keith


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