[CentOS] local root exploit

[Valent Turkovic]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, kfx <kadafax at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> 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/
>  >>
>  >
>  > I still see no kernel updates for Centos and I got two Fedora 8 kernel
>  > updates since this exploit happened.
>  >
>  > Is my yum broken?
>  >
>  > I tried
>  > yum clean all
>  > yum update
>  >
>  > and still nothing :(
>
>  kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5
>
>  is the bug fix kernel.
>  If you aren't seeing it - I think your yum config file is likely set up
>  incorrectly.
>
>  Where is it pointing for updates?

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
priority=1
enabled=1


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