11 Feb
2008
11 Feb
'08
11:06 a.m.
Valent Turkovic wrote:
I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html
And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
yum says there are no updates... am I safe?
No, you are not safe - and you should have rebooted after the last kernel update (2.6.18-53.1.5.el5 is current). But that kernel isn't safe either.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251 for a temporary workaround.
Cheers,
Ralph