Except as Robert S points out, even if the vulnerability is still there, the actual exploit implementation often has to play catch-up to work on the new version.
Posted Nov 23, 2012 9:47 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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So it helps us defend against *badly-written* rootkits? I suppose insofar as most rootkits are badly written (just as most software is badly written), that may be helpful. But it only takes one guy to come out with a well-written rootkit...