Re: Buffer Overflow`s

Flossie <guessme@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I`ll try and explain again. When i was using a 2.20 kernel there was a patch
> for the kernel that would stop buffer overflows, thus allowing the system to
> not be breached at the admin level (i think that is correct). That is as
> much as i can remember as what i am asking is about 2-4 years old or longer.
> I am sorry if i haven`t explained it well enough but my memory is not what
> it was a while back.

I appreciate your making the effort of trying to explain. Part of the
problem is that there never was, and never will be, a 2.20 kernel. You
might have meant:

2.0.20
2.1.20
2.2.20
2.3.20
2.4.20
2.5.20

There is not yet a 2.6.20, but there probably will be, eventually. See:
http://www.kernel.org/

I think it fair to surmise that buffer overflows discovered in Linux
kernels have always been fixed pretty much instantly, however, as you'll
see if you google for:

"buffer overflow" "linux kernel"

....including the quotation marks.


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