At 21:40 29.01.99 +1300, Russell Street wrote:
>Which version of the Linux kernel?  According to an article on the
>mailing list it is LENGTH OF THE KERNEL VERSION STRING that causes
>problems.  Not the version itself.  The long version string causes a
>buffer overflow in the server.

I didn't talk to the user, yet, but I've heard that he should have
installed a hacker kernel, recently. The client didn't cause any
problems before. Most of the Linux clients have a kernel version
of 2.0.35 or something like that.


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