] An anonymous reader writes "The BitKeeper to CVS gateway
] was apparently hacked in an attempt to add a root exploit
] back door to the Linux kernel, according to the
] linux-kernel archive. The change was in the file
] kernel/exit.c and changed the user ID of a process to
] root under the guise of checking the validity of some
] flags. The core Linux BitKeeper kernel repository was not
] at risk, and in fact it was the BitKeeper CVS export
] scripts that detected the unauthorized modifications to
] CVS. The changes were falsely attributed in CVS to
] long-time Linux developer davem (David Miller). Users of
] the BKCVS repository should resync their trees to remove
] the offending code if they had replicated it since
] yesterday."

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