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What about non-vulnerable systems?

What about non-vulnerable systems?

Posted Aug 18, 2009 17:20 UTC (Tue) by michaelkjohnson (subscriber, #41438)
Parent article: Null pointers, one month later

As of this writing, no other distributors have fixed this problem

As Brad Spengler pointed out and I noticed separately before becoming aware of Brad's analysis, rPath Linux is not vulnerable in its default configuration (and I doubt that anyone is changing vm.mmap_min_addr on their rPath Linux-based systems).

We are still going to release a new kernel that has these specific issues addressed, but the priority isn't quite as high given the lack of vulnerability.


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