[SECURITY] Updated Fedora Core 1 kernel packages.
Leonard den Ottolander
leonardjo at hetnet.nl
Fri Dec 5 18:15:44 UTC 2003
Hi Dave,
> The kernel shipped with Fedora Core 1 was vulnerable to a bug in the
> error return on a concurrent fork() with threaded exit() which could be
> exploited by a user level program to crash the kernel.
>
> In addition to this bug fix, the changelog below details various
> other non security fixes that have been added.
How about the do_brk() vulnerability that was fixed for the Red Hat Linux
kernels? Is the Fedora kernel not vulnerable for this overflow?
Bye,
Leonard.
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