[Novalug] vulnerability in linux?

Nino Pereira ninorpereira@gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 07:45:57 EDT 2013


List,

this web site mentions a vulnerability in linux,
http://www.pcworld.com/article/208452/two_vulnerabilities_provide_root_access_on_linux.html

and suggests a way to prevent a problem, like this:
Alternatively, preventing the RDS kernel module from loading is also an
effective workaround, VSR said. That can be achieved by executing the
  following command as root:

echo "alias net-pf-21 off" > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-rds

does that work? and if so, what does it do?

Nino




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