Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 14th Aug 2009 02:29 UTC
Linux 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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RE[3]: WinXP
by Lunitik on Sat 15th Aug 2009 22:47 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: WinXP"
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Since this flaw required local user access to exploit, I'm not sure it would have been very effective even before the patch?

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