[21662] in Athena Bugs
Re: Athena and Linux ptrace bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Mar 22 16:25:44 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Tom Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>
Cc: Athena Bugs list <bugs@mit.edu>
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Date: 22 Mar 2003 16:25:40 -0500
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On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:15, Tom Cavin wrote:
> Is the ptrace bug scheduled for the next update? And if so, when is that
> update going out?
If there is another 9.1 patch release, it will definitely include the
updated kernel module. But it's somewhat unlikely that there will be
one; we don't generally consider local root exploits to be security
emergencies (except on the dialups, of course, but they can be fixed
there without a patch release), and the 9.2 release is in danger of
falling behind schedule.
