Once upon a time, Gary Gatling <[email protected]> said:
> on a 32 bit machine and indeed, RHEL 5 is affected. (The first exploit 
> code I saw over the weekend did not work but this one did) I compiled on 
> 32 bit kernel and ran on 64 bit kernel (2.6.18-194.11.3.el5) and got root. 
> scary. I've added the workaround on some shared login servers we run 
> until the new kernel has finished testing phase.

The workaround only prevents the "easy" exploit (compiling a 32 bit ELF
binary and running it).  That's not the only way to make a 32 bit system
call however, and AFAIK there's no way to block the other ways of
exploiting this.

-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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