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?