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Re: ptrace vulnerability?



> > His announcement is Slashdotted, and I'm seeing no notice of which versions 
> > are affected!  I'm running 2.4.18 on all my Debian servers, please tell me 
> > what's going on.
same here...:(

Why most this patch does is change kernel_thread into arch_kernel_thread?

only usefull thing I see is addedd check for 'is_dumpable' in
ptrace_check_attach, and is_dumpable macro that checks tsk and also tsk->mm
for 'is_dumpable'. 

Is this ok?
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Dariush Pietrzak,
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