Re: Kernel ptrace Hole - Fix For i386 ?
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:01:57 -0500, Greg Norris wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:46:38AM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote:
>> The fix is in vanilla kernel 2.4.20 as I understand it, and it sounds
>> like some people here are downloading that source for their Woody i386
>> systems.
>
>By "vanilla", do you mean the "Linus kernel" from kernel.org? If so,
>the fix was incorporated into 2.4.21-pre6... 2.4.20 wasn't updated.
Yep - kernel.org is what I meant - thanks for that info. Thanks also
to a private email I've been advised that patched Debian versions of
2.4.20 do exist in the main archive pool directories, so I guess the
wheels of a release are turning.
Sorry everybody - I didn't notice that the same question got asked 3
days ago ("ptrace exploit").
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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