[Preston] Major kernel vunerability

[Tokarz, Jay (UK)]

I just read about this on Slashdot (although it is a few days old) so get your kernels patched.  There only seems to be a handful of kernels (both 2.4.x and 2.6.x) that are unaffected.

Summary:  20 lines of C code which will crash the kernel (or cause a race-condition rather).  This code can be run by any user!!!

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

Jay
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