dosemu and latest F8 kernel
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Jun 11 15:31:05 UTC 2008
Frank Cox <theatre <at> sasktel.net> writes:
> I don't understand why it changed, but the latest F8 kernel (2.6.25.4-10.fc8)
> doesn't work as-issued with dosemu.
That mmap minimum address was introduced to block some security exploits.
Setting it to 0 won't make you any more vulnerable as with the old kernels
(AFAIK there's no way to exploit the mmap minimum address alone without some
other security issue), but it will disable this possible mitigation of
potential future security issues.
Kevin Kofler
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