Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 14th Aug 2009 02:29 UTC
It's the end of the world. Again. According to some Linux developers and security researchers, a bug in the Linux kernel has just been uncovered that makes just about every distribution utilizing kernel 2.4 and 2.6 on just about all architectures since May of 2001 vulnerable to a certain kind of attack.
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2005-09-08
No this is not the worst by far. It is a privilege escalation bug, that's pretty common and not that dangerous to the common linux user. It only makes trojans more dangerous, but the virus'es and trojans has to get in first. This is mainly means local users can get more privileges, but local users are usually employees or device owners.
No, the most serious bug in Linux was the big one in ssh, which allowed remote access to most linux server (used in Matrix 2, btw).