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New 'patched' kernel available for antiX Lysistrata

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New 'patched' kernel available for antiX Lysistrata

Postby anticapitalista on Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:21 pm

antiX Mepis kernel has fixed the widely reported vmsplice() issue.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-0600

A simple upgrade should install the patched kernel and necessary linux-header files.
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Postby n2j3 on Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:53 am

Thanks a bunch anti!

Code: Select all

bumpy@antix:~/vmsplice$ ./exploit
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Linux vmsplice Local Root Exploit
By qaaz
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[+] mmap: 0x0 .. 0x1000
[+] page: 0x0
[+] page: 0x20
[+] mmap: 0x4000 .. 0x5000
[+] page: 0x4000
[+] page: 0x4020
[+] mmap: 0x1000 .. 0x2000
[+] page: 0x1000
[+] mmap: 0xb7db2000 .. 0xb7de4000
[-] vmsplice: Bad address

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