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kernel: local root exploit in 2.4.22

kernel: local root exploit in 2.4.22

Posted Dec 4, 2003 2:50 UTC (Thu) by kit (guest, #4609)
Parent article: kernel: local root exploit in 2.4.22

Correction, the Fedora advisory is for another issue unrelated to do_brk(). While the timing is similar, the changelog in the linked advisory shows this is the case.

See comment from Red Hat employee here :

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg00484.html

"2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernel in FC1 is not vulnerable to this issue.
See linux-2.4.18-smallpatches.patch patch in
kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.src.rpm (mm/mmap.c change)."


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