From fedora list:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Zbigniew Fiedorowicz fiedorow@math.ohio-state.edu wrote:
Further story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/linux_kernel_regression_bug/
This is a very serious problem which puts multiuser 64-bit Linux systems absolutely at the mercy of their least responsible users.
I have filed a bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635675 Priority should be high not low.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com wrote:
The fix is already in the "updates-testing" repository and awaiting karma from the QA folks.
# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel
This will give you a patched kernel.
Users of Fedora 12, 13, and 14 can perform this update. I strongly suggest they do so ASAP.
Any equivalent for centos yet?
mahalo Dave