Re: How to fix the ptrace flaw without rebooting

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 06:15:36 EST


On Gwe, 2003-04-04 at 12:18, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Erik Hensema wrote:
>
>
> > A better fix in a running system is to simply disable dynamic module
> > loading: echo /no/such/file > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
>
>
> You mean like this?
>
> # echo 'x'>/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
> bash: /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe: No such file or directory

Thats not a sufficient fix except for people blindly running the
example exploit

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