[Sussex] Kernel Crash Exploit detected...

John Crowhurst fyremoon at fyremoon.net
Mon Jun 14 21:43:10 UTC 2004


An article from slashdot.org: 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/14/118209

SIGFPE triggers a lockup in the kernel.

A choice of two simple patches, one being a handler in signal.c to prevent
the signal reaching the kernel, and the other a change to the asm to clean
up the FPE flags.

-- 
John




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