[plug] 2.4.24 mremap root exploit

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Wed Feb 18 22:33:05 WST 2004


Interesting to see how it goes.  Subjectively nicer on the desktop, but
~1/3 slower using transcode which fits in with others have said on the
gentoo lists (The first guy who brought it up (posted the numbers) 
started a mini-flamewar for suggesting 2.6 could be slower!)

BillK

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 22:12, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 21:49, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > *sigh* yet another mremap local root exploit! doh!

> 
> Just bought our core server up to 2.6 tonight :-)





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