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Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel



On 2008-02-11 07:17:08 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday.  
> Virtually all the stock kernels provided by several distributions in the  
> past year appear to be vulnerable.

Is it specific to x86 (not x86_64) as the exploit contains x86 code,
or are other architectures also vulnerable in some other way?

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