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Articles: Current Kernel Exploit

Posted by devil on Nov 04, 2009 - 01:20 PM | (1663 reads)

Important News

The current Kernel exploit will be published very soon and so become exploitable.

Current sidux kernels are not affected.

Every user can test easily by running:  sysctl vm.mmap_min_addr

 This should return a non-zero value

If it returns zero (possible with quite old sidux kernels) please update your kernel immediately

Should it be zero with a current sidux kernel (because an application, e.g. wine has set it to 0) do:

 # echo "vm.mmap_min_addr = 4096" > /etc/sysctl.d/mmap_min_addr.conf

 # /etc/init.d/procps restart

 

 
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