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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Member since:2005-07-11
When it comes to Linux and vulnerabilities I'm just not worried because I know the kernel hackers will fix it very fast as they have always been doing it.
Yes, once they (kernel devs) know about issues, they (the issues) tend to get fixed right away.
Unfortunately, in this case, it took 8 years, including two major kernel releases, and umpteen minor kernel releases, to find the issue.
On the bright side, it doesn't look like this was exploited too much in the wild.
I would have to say that, on this one, everyone was *extremely* lucky. This could have been a lot worse.
Edited 2009-08-14 18:40 UTC
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2006-08-15
When it comes to Linux and vulnerabilities I'm just not worried because I know the kernel hackers will fix it very fast as they have always been doing it.
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The kernel and the developers always have impressed me with their work and fast fixes, I know this wont be a different case, and in the end we have a stronger kernel