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Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel



On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:08:17PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre 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?
> 
> You can get the list of architectures for which built kernels were
> uploaded here:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=72;bug=464945

Er, I apologise. This was not the answer to the question asked.

Kumar
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