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Looks like some older kernels are affected too

Looks like some older kernels are affected too

Posted Jul 17, 2009 14:35 UTC (Fri) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
Parent article: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

See this video where a "test" 2.6.18 from RHEL is violated... although it isn't clear yet what if any other versions might be affected:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN1fdvktRbk


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Looks like some older kernels (with backports?) are affected too

Posted Jul 17, 2009 16:20 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

That most likely refers to a (non-product) test kernel that has the tun packet accounting backported:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495863

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