Kernel vulnerabilities discovered in Ubuntu

[A Guy]

Lol, this is as bad as it gets! “a local attacker” could exploit this to cause the system to crash, leading to a denial of service...


Ooooh, someone sitting at your machine can cause it to crash. RUN AWAY!!!



http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7728&tag=content;col1&tag=nl.e589

A Guy

[hellnoire]

I think that's called a reboot button... perish the thought!

[Alboguy]

Key phrase: “a local attacker” … these exploits cannot be leveraged remotely, meaning the sky isn’t falling it on Linux users.

This is not problem I guess...Just a bug that I hope they will fix soon.

[hellnoire]

Indeed, that's the thing... it's more of a bug then anything else hahah

[brayden]

I remember there was this one command that was just a bunch of numbers joined together and when you put it in terminal the OS would just immediately crash. Who cares about something like that as it's only a local exploit?