Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

[Lutz Kittler]

>
> but isn't there a trick to surpass the bug while waiting for debian
> updates ?
>
> or won't be there a 2.4.18 update ? :)
>

You can disable autoloading for kernel modules:
echo "xxxxx" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe .

 lutz