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Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call



On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:54:24AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> The only way to have avoided this kernel vulnerability from day-0 of
> discovery/fix release would have been to be constantly upgrading to
> pre-release kernels.

Yes but also the debian servers would not have been vulnerable if they had
used 2.4.23. At least not at that point in time.

Greetings
Bernd
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