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Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel



Hello,

Just tried on 2.6.23-1-amd64 and it works.


On Feb 11, 2008 2:07 PM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2008-02-11 07:17:08 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday.
> > Virtually all the stock kernels provided by several distributions in the
> > past year appear to be vulnerable.
>
> Is it specific to x86 (not x86_64) as the exploit contains x86 code,
> or are other architectures also vulnerable in some other way?
>
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