Re: When are security updates effective?

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 12:28:17AM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> - can a process running vulnerable code be exploited to not show the
>  shared libraries and other non-shared libraries and files it had opened for 
>  reading at some point?

Of course it can. And that's irrelevant to the question at 
hand--installing a security update at that point isn't going to help.

Mike Stone