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distro update progressdistro update progressPosted Feb 13, 2008 10:52 UTC (Wed) by Velmont (subscriber, #46433)In reply to: distro update progress by incase Parent article: vmsplice(): the making of a local root exploit
If you use the new hotfix, it will *not* use the exploit to get root but just disable vmsplice. Morten Hustveit made the patch while waiting for a pizza delivery, and didn't look at the exploit - now the second version enables sysadmins to disable vmsplice more securely. ;-)
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