INFO: 2.6.17-2.6.24.1 local root exploit

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

There is local root exploit available which works on 2.6.17-2.6.24.1 machines.

Th kernels starting from 2.6.22.17-5 are fixed (builders still processing it 
so not yet on ftp).

Untested hotfix: 
http://www.ping.uio.no/~mortehu/disable-vmsplice-if-exploitable.c

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/