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Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel



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

HTH.

Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah,
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600 036

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