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Patch your kernels

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Chris Samuel

For those who haven’t seen, there is a local root exploit in what appears to be every Linux kernel from 2.6.1 through to 2.6.24, the bug is fixed in 2.6.24.1 which is out now.

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