That's actually the same site as the first url (prob just aliased domain name). :)
Damn nasty indeed. Time to build a testing box to see if our production servers are affected (looks like some customised kernels handle it ok (not a blanket 2.4.18 and up problem. just the majority.) Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gonzalo Servat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Kernel exploit for all kernels > 2.4.18 > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 00:16 +1000, Paul Robinson wrote: > > Evening Sluggers, > > > > Saw this on overclockers.com.au tonight : > > http://reviewed.homelinux.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/ > > > > and a lil googling showed : > > > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/403593 > > > > Certainly looks nasty. Any one heard more on this? > > Here's a URL explaining it a bit further in detail: > > http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html > > Pretty nasty indeed. Scary to think a bug this serious didn't get picked > up :) > > Regards, > Gonzalo > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
