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Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered

An anonymous reader writes "The BitKeeper to CVS gateway was apparently hacked in an attempt to add a root exploit back door to the Linux kernel, according to the linux-kernel archive. The change was in the file kernel/exit.c and changed the user ID of a process to root under the guise of checking the validity of some flags. The core Linux BitKeeper kernel repository was not at risk, and in fact it was the BitKeeper CVS export scripts that detected the unauthorized modifications to CVS. The changes were falsely attributed in CVS to long-time Linux developer davem (David Miller). Users of the BKCVS repository should resync their trees to remove the offending code if they had replicated it since yesterday."

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  1. tsarkon reports ode to the greased yoda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    parent is a spoiler! how cool!

  2. Someone needs to get with the program... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...and that someone is everyone.

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  4. Re:Neo_Trinity both DIE Zion saved with deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Forgive me, but my English is not very good, but you maked me not hapy with this too early telling of what happen in Matrix movie.

    Det ar intressant hur mycket flott som kravs for att infora en yodadocka ianaloppningen. Antagligen utfors aven handlingen av homosexuella med tendenser till grova masochistiska fantasier. Men det ar sannorlikt att det absolut varsta av handlingen ar att den stackars, oskyldiga yodadockan blir instoppad i anus utan att ha nagot att saga till om.

  5. J00 == T3H R0X0R! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Thank you, kind troll! You not only saved us eight bucks, you also saved us from having to see that god-awful crapfest! And to think, the cosmic awfulness of Gigli would be overshadowed so soon!

    And a goatse link!

  6. ROFL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    awesome!

  7. Re:Ebay-style attacks by agurkan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what is the country of attacker has anything to do with attack capability? so, the people in russia live in worse conditions than the US, they still have ethics, and some americans don't, as you yourself point out (RedHat is mostly american).
    i am sorry to see that this attitude of self righteousness is being internalized by americans and europeans more and more everyday.

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    ato
  8. Re:Neo_Trinity both DIE Zion saved with deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That doesn't really explain how Neo was able to exercise his powers in the "real" world in the second movie, and how Agent Smith was able to exist in the real world too. Wasn't the real world you see in the second film supposed to be another matrix or some shit?

  9. Re:Microsoft by azzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > War is necrophilia.

    No, having sex with dead people is necrophilia.

  10. Re:Microsoft by Inthewire · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ah, that happened a long time ago.
    In fact, that's what drew my eye to your post.

    See you again someday soon.

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  11. Re:Microsoft by Malcontent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "See you again someday soon."

    I am sure you will. That's what stalkers do. They follow you around.

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    War is necrophilia.

  12. Re:Neo_Trinity both DIE Zion saved with deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    neo isn't actually dead, at the end of the movie the architect is exiled, because neo took his place (see the first movie)

  13. Re:Ebay-style attacks by agurkan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ok, let me clarify. it is hard to catch someone from france, even though it is not a third world country. does what i have written make sense now? why would i want to bash french? why is calling a country third world country bashing?

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    ato
  14. Re:Microsoft by hummassa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think he meant: War is having sex with dead people.

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  15. Re:3 cheers for monolithic kernals by TheRaven64 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Do you even know what a square number is?

    Repeat after me... 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11

    Uh, those (with the exception of 1) are prime numbers, not square numbers. The square numbers are ones which are an integer multiplied by itself, i.e. 1 (1x1), 4 (2x2), 9 (3x3), 16 (4x4), 25 (5x5) etc. In 2001 (the book, and I think the film) the monolith was 1x4x9. In later books it was stated that this series extended beyond three dimensions.

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  16. Re:3 cheers for monolithic kernals by Nick_dm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A square numbers is one which is equal to n^2 when n is a whole number. You are almost talking about primes numbers but you made a mistake, 1 is not a prime. A prime p has to be divisible by two distinct (ie. different) numbers, 1 and itself. 1 and 1 are not distinct (there are some good reasons for this mentioned in the links bellow).

    Square Numbers

    Prime Numbers

  17. Re:Microsoft by azzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Er.. maybe that's what he meant... but even so.. that's not true either.
    War n A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.