Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1565-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities
On Mon, 05 May 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Mon, 05 May 2008, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>
> > In article <[🔎] 20080504232555.GE9909@anguilla.noreply.org> you wrote:
> > > Apropos. Is there a way to get that information from a vmlinuz file on
> > > disk? Without booting it, that is.
> >
> > Interesting enough my (somewhat older) file command does only print "x86
> > boot sector", but I think some magic files supported it. Otherwise you can
> > use "strings vmlinux | fgrep 2."
>
> This does not appear to work well on at least armel.
Or, more generally, when the kernel is compressed.
http://svn.noreply.org/svn/weaselutils/trunk/nagios-check-running-kernel
is what I delopyed on .debian.org so far.
Cheers, and thanks,
weasel
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