New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered

Ant writes " According to linuxreviews article's on 6/11/2004, there is a nasty bug that lets a simple C program crash the kernel (2.4.18-2.6.x reported so far), effectively locking the whole system. Affects both 2.4.2x and 2.6.x kernels on the x86 architecture. This exploit can be compiled and run without a root access and with a shell access. There are detailed information and source code mentioned. " You need to have shell access to run this program; it's also worth noting that not *all* flavors are vulnerable. Please read article for the full details.

Comments

Re:There's a big difference...

[ThomK]

Spin, spin, sugar.

Eventually all /. posts are going to devolve to:

LINUX GOOD
MICROSOFT BAD

Well at least that way it'll be easier to mod.

Re:if you're running 2.4.25 or 2.4.26

[SpaceJunkie]

So wtf are you doing here troll?

Re:There's a big difference...

[the_mad_poster]

So, in other words, the problem isn't that you intentionally set up a Linux box for an individual who you knew wasn't equipped to maintain it... it's that the patch doesn't take into consideration the fact that there are people out there who are too lazy to learn some basic tasks to maintain their system?

I think I'm beginning to see what's going on here...

Besides, if he sits around long enough flicking his boogers about, up2date and emerge will be able to do it with some very incredibly complex typing that all fits on one line.