Re: 2.2.0 SECURITY - *IMPORTANT*

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:12:17 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> I wouldn't be too surprised if its the same bug as the ptrace one people have
> been complaining about lately.

It's the same bastard bug. =) See Ingo Molnar's fix for this - incredibly
it seems it was an off-by-one bug in mmap.c. 8(

Cheers,
Alex.

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