> On the subject of "how much damage can be done" to your kernel, here's
> the latest alert

We all know that buffer overflows have potential for disastrous
consequences. How does that relate to unloading a module, or reading
/proc/config.gz, which is I think what we were discussing? These are two
different topics.

> > This problem was found
> > in September by Andrew Morton, but unfortunately that was too late for
> > the 2.4.22 kernel release.

Who cares whether it was late for xyz, it needs fixing.

Volker

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