[plug] do_brk() vuln with kernels < 2.4.23

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Thu Dec 18 14:09:03 WST 2003


thanks mate

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:05, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:41:28PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> | Hello,
> | 
> | I'm building a new firewall at the moment and currently my kernel is:
> | 
> | 2.4.18-5woody5
> | 
> | Is this likely susceptible to do_brk() ?
> 
> Look in the Debian changelog, somewhere like
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-source-*/changelog.Debian.gz.  If it says the
> do_brk vulnerability has been patched (and is dated after 20 Nov :-P)
> then you should be safe.
> 
> Cameron.
> 
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