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Matthew Carpenter wrote: <snip> | | What concerns me is the /dev directory. This is a SCO Linux 4 box (yes, I was | run one of those still). I don't believe I set up YOU automated updates or | anything so I'm abit confused here. Is this box toast? Have I been whacked? | I noticed there was a new Kernel available for my SuSE boxen. Was there some | vulnerability that I didn't patch for? | | Thanks, | Matt |
The most recent vulnerability was the ptrace exploit announced by Alan Cox back in March. If you're running a 2.4.18-27 or higher kernel you shouldn't be vulnerable. It's a local exploit, remote exploitation isn't possible. See: http://lwn.net/Articles/25669/
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