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Hello! Erik Hensema wrote: > > If you can't reboot to apply a security fix, you've got a serious problem. > > A better fix in a running system is to simply disable dynamic module > loading: echo /no/such/file > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe > At the very least you can be sure your machine won't crash this way ;-) > IIRC, dynamic module loading is not required to exploit all the bugs present in ptrace. Luckly all the exploits floating around require kmod :) Regards, Nuno Silva - 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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