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/ kfx > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos