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Security Alert: Ubuntu Linux kernel vulnerabilities

by on June 20, 2008 · 0 comments

Multiple buffer overflows were discovered in the Ubuntu Linux kernel and can be corrected by upgrading your system to latest kernel version.

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GCC Compiler 4.3.0 exposes a Linux / BSD kernel bug

by on March 19, 2008 · 3 comments

Since version 4.3, gcc changed its behavior concerning the x86/x86-64 ABI and the direction flag, that is it now assumes that the direction flag is cleared at the entry of a function and it doesn’t clear once more if needed. According to LWN article GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug: A change to GCC for [...]

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