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From: John M Collins <jmc@xisl.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:32:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113341579.3105.63.camel@caveman.xisl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050412210857.GT11199@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 14:08 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * John M Collins (jmc@xisl.com) wrote:
> > Thanks to everyone for the pointers on this one I've rebuilt the kernels
> > and we'll see what happens.
> 
> BTW, I'd recommend updating to 2.6.11.7 so that you're protected from
> another local root exploit.

I'll do that - trouble is round where I am they dish out Nvidia cards
like confetti, I've got them in the machine I use most and another 2 and
you have to do all that gyrating with running the script to FTP down and
build the secret module before you can run X. This is a big disincentive
when it comes to installing new kernels.

I wish some kind soul would speak nicely to Nvidia and get them to see
reason on the point but I suspect I'm not the first person to wish that.
(Or is there a sneaky way of patching the modules so they'll work in
another kernel without tainting it?).


John Collins Xi Software Ltd www.xisl.com Tel: +44 (0)1707 886110
(Direct) +44 (0)7799 113162 (Mobile)


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-12 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-12  9:34 Exploit in 2.6 kernels John M Collins
2005-04-12 12:24 ` Baruch Even
2005-04-12 15:00   ` John M Collins
2005-04-12 21:08     ` Chris Wright
2005-04-12 21:32       ` John M Collins [this message]
2005-04-13  5:28         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-04-13  9:47         ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-13 12:59           ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-13 13:06             ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-13 13:23               ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-13 14:01                 ` John M Collins
2005-04-16  2:32                   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-13 15:22                 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-14 14:01                   ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-20 18:17                     ` nVidia stuff again Doug Ledford
2005-04-20 23:12                       ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-21 11:23                         ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-21 12:15                         ` Doug Ledford
2005-04-21 12:54                           ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-21 13:35                           ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-21 14:43                             ` Manu Abraham
2005-04-21 21:17                               ` J.A. Magallon
2005-04-22 14:44                                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-15 15:00                 ` Exploit in 2.6 kernels Alan Cox
2005-04-15 16:06                   ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-15 16:19                     ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-14 12:46             ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-05 22:00               ` Olaf Titz
2005-04-13 13:02         ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-13 14:26           ` Eric Rannaud
2005-04-13 14:41             ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-14 20:02               ` Greg Folkert
2005-04-14 22:27                 ` John M Collins
2005-05-09 18:37     ` Alessandro Salvatori

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