Security 10911 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

New kernels are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1 and -current. The 9.1 and -current kernels have been upgraded to 2.4.24, and a fix has been backported to the 2.4.21 kernels in Slackware 9.0 to fix a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap() call which could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. Sites should upgrade to the 2.4.24 kernel and kernel modules. After installing the new kernel, be sure to run 'lilo'.

Security 10911 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

ISEC Security Research said Monday that it found a critical vulnerability in code that is used to manage virtual memory on Linux systems. The vulnerability affects versions of the Linux kernel up to and including version 2.6 and would give low-level Linux users total control over a Linux system.

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