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Re: howcome there's no DSA for the latest Linux ptrace hole?



Hi,

Guille -bisho- wrote:
> At least the 2.4.19 is vulnerable.
> A quick patch is to put a invalid binary on /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
> instead of the real modprobe binary, and then you have time to compile
> out your kernel without having to run... :)

That seems to work only for the exploit provided by him, but not for the
isec proof-of-concept exploit. It's a better workaround to use the npt
module from http://www.securiteam.com/tools/5SP082K5GK.html .
This module will restrict the use of ptrace() to root. It's not a fix,
but a workaround!

- Alexander

-- 
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