vmsplice Local Root Exploit

Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 10:21:49 UTC 2008


>> vmsplice Local Root Exploit is in the wild. I have heard that it selinux
>> doesn't protect against this kind of attacks. True?

> Just to clarify. I'm interested how safe is fedora in general with this
> king of exploits...

"Safe" enough to have a fix within a day the bug was filed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 :-)

Cheers,
Debarshi
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