Kernel vulnerability

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:17:24AM +0100, Leon wrote:
> Does this kind of vulnerability affect machines that only have sshd
> enabled? I'm still using Kernel 2.6.16.20.

It means that if anyone gets access to a non-root account on your system,
they can have root very easily. This is not a good situation.

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