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

["Kevin.Hendricks" <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>]

Hi,

BTW: this patch is not even part of 2.4.23-pre5-ben0 that I grabbed  
just a few days ago.

So unless you are using 2.4.23 FINAL you probably should look and see  
if that patch is
present and if not add it to your tree.

Kevin

On Dec 3, 2003, at 9:46 AM, Colin Leroy wrote:

> 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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Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
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