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

[Jason Boxman]

On Thursday 05 November 2009 04:42:59 pm Edward Guldemond wrote:
> http://wiki.debian.org/mmap_min_addr has a list of affected software,
> as well as an explanation about the tunable.  dosemu and qemu are also
> affected if you don't want to run them as root.

And fyi, it appears the wine deb packages explicitly install a sysctl file that 
ensures mmap_min_addr is 0 at boot.

Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.d/wine.sysctl.conf)... 

# Wine needs to access the bottom 64k of memory in order to launch
# 16 bit programs.
vm.mmap_min_addr = 0

Probably safe to change it > 0 if you don't use 16-bit apps, then.

Now, to see if Sierra Pharoh from 1999 runs!

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