[Beowulf] Heads up - Stack-Clash local root vulnerability

[Christopher Samuel]

On 21/06/17 10:21, Christopher Samuel wrote:

> I suspect in those cases you have to rely entirely on the kernel
> mitigation of increasing the stack guard gap size.

I'm now seeing indications this kernel change can break some
applications (we've not touched our HPC systems yet).

https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/Unifi-Controller-and-Debian-8-kernel-upgrade/m-p/1967867#M233927

Be careful..

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 Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
 Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne
 Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545