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Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Posted Jul 17, 2009 15:11 UTC (Fri) by hegel (guest, #49501)
In reply to: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted by trasz
Parent article: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Oops mechanism doesn't try to continue either - it kills the current process most of the time (See http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html#AE...). The exploit does mmap(NULL, MAP_FIXED) - that's why it doesn't crash..

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