[lug] New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

For those of you not following Slashdot, there is apparently a
vulnerability in the Linux kernel that affects both 2.4.2x and 2.6.x,
but only in x86 machines.

http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html

It allows certain code (which is posted in this article) to crash the
kernel.  There are a few patches that make the kernel immune, but no one
seems to know why.

Dhruva