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Thread ID: 46250	2004-06-18 03:04:00	linux security warning!!	robsonde (120)	Press F1

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245613	2004-06-18 03:04:00	flaw found in linux kernal!! The flaw, found by two software programmers, could give a user with access to a Linux system the ability to crash the system using two dozen lines of code written in the C programming language Assume your kernel is vulnerable unless you have good reason to believe it is safe. The program, dubbed "evil.c", causes problems with the code sent to the floating-point unit, the part of the processor that handles noninteger calculations, according to a note in a source code patch published by Linux founder Linus Torvalds. linuxreviews.org	robsonde (120)
245614	2004-06-18 03:15:00	And someone with "access to a Linux system" can put an axe through the box. Or start it up in single-user mode and format the disk ... or ... Why bother writing "2 dozen lines of code"? It's not a major thing. Now it's been discovered, it's fixed. (Kernel 2.6.7).	Graham L (2)
245615	2004-06-18 03:25:00	> And someone with "access to a Linux system" can put > an axe through the box. Or start it up in > single-user mode and format the disk ... or ... this is very true... let face it this can hack/exploite can only be done by a person who has an account on the system, it not like some of the windows problems that can be done be any user on the internet. still if there is a fault and there is a patch then its good to get it on the system.	robsonde (120)
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