[Lias] linux kernel security patches

[Andrew Dorrell]

In case you have some hackers at your school:

  --Linux Kernel Vulnerability
(19 March 2003)
A vulnerability in the ptrace component of the 2.2 and 2.4 series
of Linux kernels could allow a local user to obtain root privileges.
RedHat has posted a patch for the flaw
http://news.com.com/2100-1016-993278.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-098.html?tag=nl


-- 
Andrew Dorrell PhD.        Senior Research Engineer
Canon Information Systems Research Australia     Phone: 61 2 9805 2224
1 Thomas Holt Drive,  North Ryde,  NSW 2113.     Fax:   61 2 9805 2865