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Comment Re:disable-vmsplice-if-exploitable causes OOPS (Score 1) 586

by Matrim Cauthon on Monday February 11, 2008 @01:22AM (#22376270) Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit

disable-vmsplice-if-exploitable causes kernel oops on Debian Etch 2.6.18-5-686 as well. The exploit ran, and disable-vmsplice-if-exploitable ran, and the exploit stopped running. Several hours later,

Message from syslogd@kenobi at Mon Feb 11 00:00:27 2008 ... kenobi kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1]

etc. Not fun.

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