Kernel vulnerability

[Denis Leroy]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:17:24AM +0100, Leon wrote:
> 
>>Does this kind of vulnerability affect machines that only have sshd
>>enabled? I'm still using Kernel 2.6.16.20.
> 
> 
> It means that if anyone gets access to a non-root account on your system,
> they can have root very easily. This is not a good situation.

Is this the local root exploit that was used to compromise the Debian 
development system ?

-denis