* P.A.Knuutila said: > On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 12:32:38PM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote: > > > Could someone who knows be specific about the kernel version (all of them? > > really??) and the type of attack? Are they discussing it on linux-kernel@vger? > > Anyone have a url for the message in the archives (or other method of getting > > right to the info)? > > The bug report from bugtraq can be found at > http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/1999_2/0604.html, no discussion about the > subject at linux-kernel AFAIK. > > The report states that the whole 2.2 series would be affected, and I > believe that some machines running 2.2.5 in our local system have been > crashed using this exploit. Alan Cox has posted the fix to bugtraq. The fix is in Alan's 2.2.9-ac1 patch available from any kernel.org mirror in the /pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2 directory.. marek
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