Highly exploitable Linux kernel bug stretching back eight years found

AgeGap · 22nd August 2009, 04:31 PM

Mitchell314 · 23rd August 2009, 09:35 AM

From the link:

Quote:

Tinnes said that, as the vulnerability leads to the kernel executing code at Null, it is "as trivial as it can get to exploit".

I think I heard about that on slashdot. Check those pointers.

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