New Linux Kernel Vulnerability

[jullrich at sans.org (Johannes B. Ullrich)]

its actually an older issue (yes... confused me too for a while).
They just updated the advisory. 2.4.25 and 2.6.3 are 'safe'.



On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 08:17, David Kramer wrote:
> Posted on \. by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 07, @11:22AM
> from the well-thats-just-not-pleasant dept.
> Stop Or I'll Noop writes "Paul Starzetz writes, "A critical security 
> vulnerability has been found in the Linux kernel memory management code 
> inside the mremap(2) system call due to missing function return value check. 
> This bug is completely unrelated to the mremap bug disclosed on 05-01-2003 
> except concerning the same internal kernel function code." Full scoop here"
> 
> http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0014-mremap-unmap.txt
> 
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