Re: ptrace/kernel

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On 15:06 22 Mar 2003, Lachlan Evans <lachlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 01:53, Justin Zygmont wrote:
| > just go to a mirror site and download the new ernel package, then type rpm 
| > -Uvh packagename and reboot.  This vulnerability sounds like it would be 
| > hard to exploit.
| 
| Hard to exploit?  The exploit is out in the wild.

The exploiter has to be on your machine already.
An issue for shared machines with untrusted users but not, of itself, for
your typical home machine if it's otherwise secure.
-- 
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs@xxxxxxxxxx    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

If it's broke, send it back.  If it works, take it apart and find out why.



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