Re: 2.4.22-ben2 safe? [Fwd: [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can accessLinux kernel memory]

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Subject: Re: 2.4.22-ben2 safe? [Fwd: [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can accessLinux kernel memory]
From: "Colin Leroy" <colin@colino.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:46:45 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 10f601c3b9ac$45fae590$3cc8a8c0@ANOSP>

Hi,

> I got the message below from security-announce: Currently I'm running
> 2.4.22-ben2 (got it via:
> rsync -avz rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh .... )

It's unsafe. Indeed, it was still unsafe yesterday.
You can apply this patch:
<http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/mm/mmap.c@1.32?nav=cset@1.11
48.2.2>
-- 
Colin
Ne disez pas disez, mais disez dites

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