[21653] in Athena Bugs
Athena and Linux ptrace bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Fri Mar 21 17:15:03 2003
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:15:02 -0500
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
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CC: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
Hi Folks,
I just got a question from one of my more cluefull users:
> As well, I was wondering if you knew if Athena was going to be patching
> the Linux machines anytime soon to eliminate the ptrace bug. I've done
> some testing and our machines are vulnerable; I'd rather have an Athena
> update, but if it's going to take too long, it might be necessary to
> patch them myself.
Is the ptrace bug scheduled for the next update? And if so, when is that
update going out?
Thanks,
--Tom
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