Re: mremap bug and 2.4?

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Robert L. Harris wrote:

>
>
> Just read this on full disclosure:
>
> http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0013-mremap.txt
>
> Is it valid?  No working proof of concept code has been posted so I can't
> test my systems.  The article only lists 2.4 and 2.6.  Is this
> 2.4.16-current, etc?  Anyone have any details about versions that are
> safe so I/We can determine if I need to roll a new production kernel out
> again?

It is possible that the problem is exploitable. There is no known public
exploit yet, however.

2.4.24 includes a fix for this (mm/mremap.c diff)
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