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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 22:43, Matthew Grant wrote:
> I have been just digging harder, and the vulnerability is only
> exploitable if you are using the kernel auto module loader, so compile

Not the case in some situations

> Could I please say this to the kernel developers, please fix it
> properly!

I take patches.

Alan

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