New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered

[Simon Weller]

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 09:40 am, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:36:53AM -0500, Simon Weller wrote:
> > Linus appears to have now approved a patch:
> >
> > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/gnupatch%4040cdf6f8V7sOe5n96HA5Q7r
> >9uDRvJQ
>
> s/Linus/Marcelo/

yeah, good point...looks like I need another coffee ;-)
>
> > It's supposedly compatible with 2.4.2x
> >
> > This is the same patch as posted by Dave Jones, but just the x86 patch.
>
> I've rolled the patch in and will be posting URLs on
> <http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1484> shortly.

excellent.

- Si
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dominic.
>
>
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