[Gllug] mremap root vulnerability in Linux kernel

[Bernard Peek]

In message <1073334181.10413.1.camel at hal9000>, Simon A. Boggis 
<simon at dcs.qmul.ac.uk> writes
>On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:08, Richard Jones wrote:
>> I've just seen this on slashdot.  There's no updated 2.6.0 kernel on
>> ftp.uk.kernel.org at the moment.  I'm wondering if anyone knows if
>> this kernel is vulnerable (apparently), and if there's a patch for it
>> yet.
>
>According the the original report all 2.{2,4,6} series kernels are
>vulnerable:
>http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0012-mremap.txt
>
>I don't know about patches - I thought I saw one vendor say that they'd
>patched but it wasn't one of the usual suspects {debian,redhat,suse},
>and now I can't find the mail.

SuSE has a patch available.



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Bernard Peek
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