[Gllug] Market for low-cost Linux servers/networks?

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:53:33PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Richard Jones mused:
> > I've wondered about this ... Is UML actually secure? Last time I
> > looked, it mapped the (guest) kernel into user space, and it looked as
> > if you could just write there, if you could work out the address.
> 
> The skas patch fixes this, and speeds it up to boot. :)
> 
> (Well, *mostly* fixes this. There's still a vulnerability there but it's
> much harder to exploit. 2.6.x should have that fixed, too, IIRC.)

Ah yes, this page explains more ...

http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/skas.html

Rich.

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