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Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Posted Jul 17, 2009 17:21 UTC (Fri) by kingswood (guest, #59623)
Parent article: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Is it a zero day exploit if the exploit is posted six days after the patch on linux.kernel?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/11/20 has the fix for the dereferencing bug.

Obviously the bad guys could be reading LKML too.

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Posted Jul 17, 2009 17:35 UTC (Fri) by dtlin (✭ supporter ✭, #36537) [Link]

Make that 11 days: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/6/19 came earlier, and is the
commit that Linus actually pulled (through Dave Miller's net tree).