11 Feb
2008
11 Feb
'08
10:58 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?
Valent.
No you're not... and we are a lot in this very embarrassing situation...
You can compile (you need kernel-pae-devel's rpm) and insmod this kernel module while waiting for redhat to push out a new kernel and then that centos reroll it. http://home.powertech.no/oystein/ptpatch2008/
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