distro update progress

Posted Feb 13, 2008 10:52 UTC (Wed) by Velmont (guest, #46433)
In reply to: distro update progress by incase
Parent article: vmsplice(): the making of a local root exploit

If you use the new hotfix, it will *not* use the exploit to get root but just disable
vmsplice.

Morten Hustveit made the patch while waiting for a pizza delivery, and didn't look at the
exploit - now the second version enables sysadmins to disable vmsplice more securely. ;-)