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wepple on Sept 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux PIE/stack corruption

This was/is really interesting work but should maybe be marked [April 2017] or something so waking sysadmins don't get a fright.

chomp on Sept 29, 2017 [–]

The fix was committed in April, but some distros never pulled it in because it wasn't marked as a security fix. Sysadmins should make sure all kernels are updated since as of a couple days ago there was no Cent6 kernel with the fix.

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