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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. Oh _that_ makes sense by /ASCII · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I saw this story on OSnews today, but they made it out to be about the Hyperthreading issue. But that didn't make any sense since that is not ans OS bug at all, but a hardware issue. (If it is evan an issue)

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