Comment 5 for bug 190587

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tonfa (bboissin) wrote : Re: Local root exploit in kernel 2.6.17 - 2.6.24

actually the bug exploitable from 2.6.17-2.6.24 is CVE-2008-0600. CVE-2008-0009/10 only affect
.23 and .24 (so only hardy is affected)

see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/177 for details

(btw this bug is pretty scary, it works almost anywhere you can have a shell...)