[ILUG] kernel security hole

paul at clubi.ie paul at clubi.ie
Fri Feb 15 11:47:47 GMT 2008


On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Does one have to be running VM to be susceptible to this?

The VM in 'vmsplice()' refers to 'virtual memory' rather than 
'virtual machine'. ;)

I.e. you just have to be running Linux.

regards,
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