[Leaplist] major bug found in Linux to give root access to untrusted users...

[Edward Guldemond]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Richard F. Ostrow Jr.
<rich at warfaresdl.com> wrote:
> Yep - and if you take it high enough, you're also safe from using mmap
> at all.

Well, given that this is a memory address, if you set vm.mmap_min_addr
to 4096, you've now set aside 4K of RAM.  Set it to 65536, and you've
set aside 64K of ram.  I think that's nothing to be concerned about.

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Ed

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