Re: [ilugd] New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered ( kernel 2.6.7 fixes this bug)

2004-06-16 Thread Bhaskar Dutta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>> On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 7:19 am, RS said: RS> http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html#toc6 RS> [snip] kernel 2.6.7 is out. The FP exception bug is fixed in this release. Bhaskar -

Re: [ilugd] New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered (patches are available)

2004-06-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 9:11 am, Bhaskar Dutta wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 7:19 am, RS said: > > RS> > http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html#toc6 RS> > [snip] > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108722570701423&w=2 > > Official patches are a

Re: [ilugd] New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered (patches are available)

2004-06-16 Thread Bhaskar Dutta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>> On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 7:19 am, RS said: RS> http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html#toc6 RS> [snip] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108722570701423&w=2 Official patches are already out. Links to

[ilugd] New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered

2004-06-14 Thread Raj Shekhar
http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html#toc6 The threat -- Using this exploit to crash Linux systems requires the (ab)user to have shell access or other means of uploading and running the program (like cgi-bin and FTP access). The program works on any normal user a