[CentOS] local root exploit

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Mon Feb 11 16:45:53 UTC 2008


On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, kfx wrote:

> The official patch for debian is out since a couple of hours...
> Why does it take so long for RHEL ? Just a question, not a troll or 
> something.

1. ask them

2. there have been reports of stability problems with the 
patch -- it does little good to rush out a fix for a 
non-remote root exploit that causes boxes to crash.  One 
assumes some robustness testing is in play.  I certainly hope 
so.

-- Russ herrold




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