brk bug and debian

miah jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com
Wed Dec 3 13:19:38 EST 2003


Debian got owned by the brk bug, had most of their servers owned... While they 'fix' things all maintainers are locked out.   Its been all over every news site for the last 2 weeks.

-miah

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:07:15PM -0500, Bob Keyes wrote:
> I assume that most of  you have by now heard of the linux kernel bug in
> the brk system call (CVE CAN-2003-0961). I am a debian user (3.) and am
> concerned that the updated kernel isn't in the packages list, in spite of
> a security advisory coming out from debian. ANyonw have any idea of what's
> going on?
> 
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