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Reading the comments at HardOCP:

Linux Kernel Exploit Wreaking Havoc

The usual snarky comments from the Gamers....but this was of interest.

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Dragoniz3rn00bie, 2.1 Years

Nothing to see here.

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This has been tremendously overblown by ksplice in the interest of furthering the sales of their product. It's a local exploit, which means the attacker has to already be logged in to your box. It's not a remote exploit.

Oh, and by the way, after looking for the source code for their "detection tool", there is no way in hell I'm running it. It's copy+paste of the original exploit code, and there are some things in it that are very very difficult to verify the safety of (like embedded machine code)

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And also:

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Today, 08:41 AM

LibertySycloneGawd, 3.5 Years

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Originally Posted by Robstar

How many Linux users here run a multi-user system where the users you allow are not someone you already know?

I have the same question. We leave the horde to f#$k up windows not even come close to our linux machines. We MIGHT have 4 users on our "router"

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