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Re: Kernel Vulnerability



On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:12:48PM -0300, Fabio Marcos Pedroso Filho wrote:
| No. I am using an own compilation of kernel, but I am using the 
| kernel-source from debian apt sources. I am using 2.4.19.woody2. But this 
| release is vulnerable to that local exploit that freeze the system.

I don't know what the security team is doing (although a new
2.6.6 build hit unstable a couple days ago).  However, the patch is a
one-line change to a header file.  You could find that patch on the
web fairly easily and manually merge it into the source tree you build
from to obtain the fix.

-D

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