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Workaround may not work?

Workaround may not work?

Posted Sep 17, 2010 21:07 UTC (Fri) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
In reply to: RHEL's workaround by dowdle
Parent article: Die-hard bug bytes Linux kernel for second time (Register)

According to this comment the workaround doesn't work. Can anyone else verify this?

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/forum/S-workaround-DOES...


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Workaround may not work?

Posted Sep 18, 2010 16:39 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

There is now a follow-up post from the same user in which they say they were testing some other exploit for some other bug.

Workaround may not work?

Posted Sep 20, 2010 8:41 UTC (Mon) by vlima (subscriber, #4405) [Link]

The robert_you_suck.c exploit found here still works as far as I can tell.

Workaround may not work?

Posted Sep 23, 2010 10:15 UTC (Thu) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

That's the other bug.

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