[TriLUG] Fairly serious Kernel Exploit (2.4.*-2.6.*)

[Erik Jacobson]

Hey all, I'm fairly new to the list (just moved to NC from NY a few
weeks ago), but figured this might be a good first post. :)

http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html

Just came across this today and have been passing it around a bit to
other possibly concerned parties.  Apparently it's a local kernel issue
that causes the kernel to lock up the system nice and hard.  Any user
can run it, so typical Apache code execution issues apply of course.

Fun fun!

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