RE: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shri Shrikumar [mailto:shri@urbyte.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:39 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels
>
> Does that mean that a kernel that has module loading disabled is not
> vulnerable to this exploit ?
According to one of the original posts on this (from Alan maybe?
can't remember), there are three or four cases in which this wouldn't
be exploitable. A kernel which doesn't use modules is one of those
cases. The kernel on my firewall is monolithic and I was not
successfully when attempting to gain root access using exploits
already made public.
YMMV.
j.
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Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> <http://www.gaddis.org>
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