Re: Mitigation for latest Linux kernel exploit?

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:07:09PM +0200, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen this for RedHat on mitigating the latest kernel exploit:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516949#c10
>
> Is there some similar instructions for Debian?

Somewhat similar, by Marco d'Itri . Though he uses slightly more
brute-force methods to make sure those modules won't get loaded until
you install a fixed kernel version:

  http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_294

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