Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:08:04 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: FW: i386 Linux kernel DoS |
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Jirka Kosina wrote: [...] > At the beginning I thought only kernels <= 2.4.18 were affected; but it > appeared that both kernels 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-rc1 are vulnerable as well. > The flaw seems to be related to the kernel's handling of the nested task > (NT) flag inside a lcall7.
Ouch. That one froze up 2.5.47, running from a user account. I couldn't recover with sysrq, but I was able to emergency remount-ro avoiding the bootup fsck's.
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