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Subject: Re: Release of 2.4.21
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From: krause@sdbk.de (Sebastian D.B. Krause)
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On 3487 September 1993, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The ptrace bug is only one of several local root holes.  IIS would imply
> a remote vulnerability, something _far_ more serious.
>
> This specific ptrace hole is closed, yay.  Now what about the other
> 10,001 that still exist?  People are blowing this ptrace bug WAY
> out of proportion.

That may be true, but inspite of that there is another important and
dangerous bug in 2.4.20 (the ext3 thing) that IMHO is enough reason
to release a new kernel.
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