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Torvalds creates patch for cross-platform virus

by Ryan Talabis last modified 2006-05-04 10:02 AM

Linus Torvalds has had an opportunity to examine the testing and analysis by Hans-Werner Hilse which we reported on yesterday, and has blessed it as being correct. The reason that the virus is not propagating itself in the latest kernel versions is due to a bug in how GCC handles specific registers in a particular system call. He has coded a patch for the kernel to allow the virus to work on even the latest Linux kernel.

The link address is: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/1941251&tid=78&tid=26


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