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New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered

"A Linux kernel bug allows a simple C program crash the kernel, effectively locking the whole system. The security hole affects both 2.4.2x and 2.6.x kernels on the x86 and x86_64 architectures."

Yipes!

Posted by cdump on June 16, 2004 11:13 AM | Permalink