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Linux users: are you at risk from kernel exploit?
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 12/02/2003 02:03 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
NewsForge has posted a news story on the new Kernel exploit
More news about the recent break-ins on four Debian project servers emerged yesterday when Wichert Akkerman of the Debian project issued a new security alert about the situation. It appears that a flaw in the Linux kernel was exploited and a "sniffer" put in place to highjack passwords. It was with the purloined password that access to the Debian servers was achieved.
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