WARNING: Local root hole in linux kernels

According to this post on Bugtraq, there are kernel security holes in 2.2.x kernels up to 2.2.19, and 2.4.x kernels up to 2.4.9.

The first problem is a local denial-of-service attack, caused by problems in the symlink-dereferencing kernel code. The second problem is local root hole via ptrace and setuid binaries.

Go patch those systems!

 

 

 

 

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