Re: Kernel bug (time to upgrade!)

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Jordan Bettis said:
> Is this different from the ptrace race condition?

I believe that is the problem.

> There is a fix for that which disables the ptrace system call, but the
> problem occurs upstream of ptrace, so there's not a 100% guarentee that
> it can be exploited elsewhere.

Or just upgrade to 2.2.19, which gets rid of the race.  :-)

Steve
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