Whoo Hoo! Kernel exploit

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Whoo Hoo! Kernel exploit

Post by dann » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:00 pm

Looks like everyone will be upgrading in the next 72 hours or so (I hope).

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/0220
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Post by snarkout » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:42 pm

Farg!
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Post by doublejoon » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:56 am

Thanx Dann for the info. I just went to 2.6.15.1 in a matter of minutes. I remembered to save my .config this time :)
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Re: Whoo Hoo! Kernel exploit

Post by Tsuroerusu » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:18 am

dann wrote:Looks like everyone will be upgrading in the next 72 hours or so (I hope).

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/0220
When was the last time that Linux had an exploit that could be exploited remotely? Long time ago right? :wink:
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Post by snarkout » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:14 pm

I haven't seen mention of this exploit anywhere else - strange.
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Post by Gomer_X » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:31 am

Reading this report I don't see anything for me to worry about. I don't have any malicious users on my home network, and I have no internet facing machines with open ports.

I guess I'm safe for now. I'll just wait until Dave Jones puts out a new Fedora kernel. This means I have to reboot my server this year. :x
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