New Linux Kernel Vulnerability

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

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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