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New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered



/According to linuxreviews article's on 6/11/2004, there is a nasty bug that lets a simple C program crash the kernel (2.4.18-2.6.x reported so far), effectively locking the whole system. Affects both 2.4.2x and 2.6.x kernels on the x86 architecture. This exploit can be compiled and run without a root access and with a shell access. There are detailed information and source code mentioned/


More information on this link :
http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html



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