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A comment on Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Parent comment

Re:Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnera... by kardashian007 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @09:47PM (#12641069)
Delpoyed boxes: ksplice / kpatch or run updates when available.

And consider mitigations at various tech stack layers.

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Re:Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnera... by AstralStorm on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @03:32AM (#12642118)
I haven't found a way to patch a kernel with nontrivial modules without kernel restart. This makes the mechanism only useful to reduce system reboot times after a patch.
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