--On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:04 PM +0100 Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alan Cox apparently just made public a vulnerability in the stock kernel which would permit a local user to gain root privileges (see e.g. Linux Today, LWN, the LK mailing list...). Is a patched source package in the making already or should we humble users, in the meantime, take the original patch and apply it, while the "official" thing gets worked out?
Bye Giacomo
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