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No ELF Vulnerability in 2.6 Kernel

Posted by Hemos on from the good-news-bear dept.

gaijincory writes "Greg KH, the co-maintainer of the 2.6 kernel has posted a comment on lwn.net confirming that there is indeed no such ELF vulnerability as spelled out by Paul Starzetz on isec. The bug was originally thought to be particularly nasty, allowing a malicious user to gain elevated privileges using a carefully crafted binary which would exploit the kernel's Executable and Linking Format. The bug's author confirmed that no one has been able to repro the exploit."

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  1. "no one has been able to repro the exploit" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shouldn't that be:

    "no one has been able to repro the 'sploit"

    Just to get all your leet abbrev's in one sentence.