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Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels



On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 03:54, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:12:25AM +0300, DouRiX wrote:
> > DouRiX wrote:
> > >
> > >Hi everybody,
> > >
> > >Does someone know where is debian about this issue ?
> > >
> > ><http://lwn.net/Articles/25669/>
> > 
> > I see that there is already an update but only for mips, do you know why ?
> 
> No, that is odd.  Another short-term fix is to 
> 'echo SaveMeJeebus > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe', which disables the
> module loading that is part of the problem.

Does that mean that a kernel that has module loading disabled is not
vulnerable to this exploit ?


Thanks,



Shri

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