Star Eight Years of Linux Kernel Vulnerable
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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exploit in ipx?
by reduz on Fri 14th Aug 2009 05:09 UTC
reduz
Member since:
2006-02-25

i mean, why even bother fixing? just remove ipx, no one uses it nowadays (and by no one i mean likely 99.999% users)

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RE: exploit in ipx?
by steogede2 on Fri 14th Aug 2009 10:39 in reply to "exploit in ipx?"
steogede2 Member since:
2007-08-17

i mean, why even bother fixing? just remove ipx, no one uses it nowadays (and by no one i mean likely 99.999% users)


99.999% is a lot more than 'no one' - wouldn't 0.001% be closer?

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RE[2]: exploit in ipx?
by Lunitik on Sat 15th Aug 2009 22:49 in reply to "RE: exploit in ipx?"
Lunitik Member since:
2005-08-07

I think he means 99.999999% do not use it...

Use some logic before posting.

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