From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Release of 2.4.21
Date: 20 Mar 2003 13:33:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5dc3o$lt5$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030320210305.GH8256@gtf.org
Followup to: <20030320210305.GH8256@gtf.org>
By author: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The ptrace bug is only one of several local root holes. IIS would imply
> a remote vulnerability, something _far_ more serious.
>
Don't forget: local root exploit + remote non-root exploit -> remote
root exploit.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 21:23 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20030320203015$4839@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-20 20:43 ` Release of 2.4.21 Florian Weimer
2003-03-20 21:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-20 21:33 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-03-20 22:08 ` Sebastian D.B. Krause
2003-03-21 11:06 ` Oliver Feiler
2003-03-20 22:18 ` Arador
2003-03-21 1:20 ` Chris Wright
2003-03-24 18:07 ` security of fileutils (Re: Release of 2.4.21) Pavel Machek
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[not found] ` <20030320205011$0acb@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030320205011$2c88@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030320211011$5967@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-20 21:48 ` Release of 2.4.21 Florian Weimer
2003-03-20 21:17 Dow, Benjamin
2003-03-21 0:57 ` Alan Cox
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2003-03-20 19:56 Adrian Knoth
2003-03-20 20:21 ` Sebastian D.B. Krause
2003-03-20 20:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-20 20:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-20 20:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-20 21:05 ` David Lang
2003-03-21 1:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-21 0:13 ` John Bradford
2003-03-21 1:30 ` Samuel Flory
2003-03-21 9:33 ` John Bradford
2003-03-21 8:40 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-03-21 9:23 ` John Bradford
2003-03-21 21:53 ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-22 8:27 ` John Bradford
2003-03-22 14:54 ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-21 1:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-21 0:04 ` David Lang
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