Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 | Date | Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:02:54 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > fixing the code that relies on it (except for the 99% of code relying on it > > which is cracker authored trojans) > > No doubt, but it's not much harder to look at nm vmlinux or System.map, > so I don't see the security angle...
Thats not why it was pulled out. Its a deliberate attempt to find out who is patching the syscall table and sort the results out.
And btw - I've not submitted this to Marcelo, its not something I expect to see sprung on people in 2.4.19! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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