[Gllug] Anyone using Linux 2.6.0 on production system?

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Fri Jan 9 10:39:40 UTC 2004


"Martin A. Brooks" writes:

>Given that 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 were all found to be locally rootable
>recently, I'll be waiting for 2.6.10 or thereabouts before I even
>_think_ about using it in production.

I'm not sure about your logic here. 2.6 was rootable, so you're not
going to use it. But you're happy to use 2.4, which was also vulnerable
to the same problem? Fair enough if you want to wait a while, but I
don't see how the mremap(2) vulnerability has any bearing on that
decision.

Tet
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