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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080211/af899c0f/attachment-0005.sig>