Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability

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Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability

Posted by simoniker on Monday January 5, 2004 @05:11AM from the version-plus-plus dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux Kernel 2.4.24 has been released and is available on kernel.org. It seems there's a bug in the mremap(2) system call, where a local user can get root privileges.The new version has been released only with the most important bugs fixed - the rest of the changes have been postponed (those changes include the XFS filesystem)."

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2.4.x? by devphaeton · 2004-01-05 05:11 · Score: 5, Funny

I thought that everyone jumped to the 2.6.0 by now?

Oh wait, it's been 2 weeks already,
TIME FOR A RECOMPILE!!

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Quick! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-05 05:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Use Depenguinator on all the unpatched boxen! Let the revolution begin! >:)
Re:Not another one by ContextSwitch · 2004-01-05 05:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Yup, another 5 minutes down the drain.
Re:Article title misleading... by gazbo · 2004-01-05 05:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Sir,
You are dangerously close to making me believe that a slashdot editor both reads the site and actually takes action based on it. This is distorting my worldview, and most halt.
plfxthx.
XFS Filesystem by Dibblah · 2004-01-05 05:21 · Score: 5, Funny

AAAAAARGH!

It's XFS. NOT XFS Filesystem. I'm gonna do something illegal to the next person that says ATM machine, too.
1. Re:XFS Filesystem by Kenja · 2004-01-05 05:26 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Just dont hurt their RAM memory or HD drive or they'll have to get new ones with money from the ATM machine.
  
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2. Re:XFS Filesystem by AKnightCowboy · 2004-01-05 05:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'm gonna do something illegal to the next person that says ATM machine, too.
  Isn't that the thing where you type in your PIN number?
3. Re:XFS Filesystem by isj · 2004-01-05 05:38 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I always thought that XFS was some sort of an integrated IC circuit.
4. Re:XFS Filesystem by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-05 05:51 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  RSVP Please!
5. Re:XFS Filesystem by mark-t · 2004-01-05 05:59 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'm gonna do something illegal to the next person that says ATM machine, too.
  My curiousity got the better of me...
  "ATM Machine".
  Okay... what are you gonna do to me?
  
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6. Re:XFS Filesystem by Hard_Code · 2004-01-05 06:14 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  download your mp3s?
  
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7. Re:XFS Filesystem by DavyByrne · 2004-01-05 06:59 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Isn't that the thing where you type in your PIN number?
  
  PIN number is quite a mouthful. I usually abbreviate it `PINN'.
8. Re:XFS Filesystem by squidfood · 2004-01-05 07:26 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  PIN number is quite a mouthful. I usually abbreviate it `PINN'.
  That's not very descriptive to me though. To help, why not make it PINN Number?
9. Re:XFS Filesystem by Cat_Byte · 2004-01-05 07:41 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I smell another slashdot poll.
  Most annoying acronyms:
  a) NIC card
  b) Compact Disk disk
  c) VIN number
  d) ATM machine
  e) Cowboy Neal Neal
  
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10. Re:XFS Filesystem by Eristone · 2004-01-05 10:20 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Actually HD Drive is correct. HD stands for HardDisk. Now if you said HDD drive then heads would be rolling. I'm not going to even mention the rest of your comment ;)
  
  Shouldn't that be heads would be crashing? (duck. run.) :)
This is why I love free (as in beer) software... by bc90021 · 2004-01-05 05:22 · Score: 2, Funny

...not only is there a fix already, but I didn't have to badger anyone to get it - it was announced! Off to emerge my new kernel... ;)

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(no subject) by lcde · 2004-01-05 05:22 · Score: 4, Funny

unsubscribe linux-kernel

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Re:Not another one by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-05 05:44 · Score: 1, Funny

Ssssh! I don't think he's smart enough to apply a patch or to know that "make" will only recompile files which need recompiling. Let him have his day as a martyr.
Re:Not another one by Vlad_the_Inhaler · 2004-01-05 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny

what 'work'?
how long does it take you to prepare a kernel-upgrade?

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Re:Article title misleading... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-05 06:33 · Score: 5, Funny

If it ain't broke...

...it is now.