[CentOS] unpatched local root on centos 5?

[Johnny Hughes]

On 08/13/2015 12:41 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> well, very sad to hear as I use commercial rhel 5 and paying for it..
> 

Well, in that case, I would recommend RHEL-6 or RHEL-7 for your RHEL-5
workloads :)

> 
> 2015-08-13 19:57 GMT+03:00 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>:
> 
>> On 08/12/2015 10:43 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> Looks like this affects on centos 5 and is unpatched like on rhel 5?
>>>
>>> https://access.redhat.com/articles/1537873
>>>
>>> Trying to test if this affects on centos 5. can someone compile this
>>> exploit on centos 5?
>>> https://www.qualys.com/research/security-advisories/roothelper.c
>>>
>>> any ideas how to compile it on centos 5?
>>
>> Red Hat says 2 things in that article:
>>
>> 1.  It impacts RHEL5 (so also CentOS5)
>>
>> 2. They are NOT fixing it, at least not now.
>>
>> This is NOT the FIRST security update where this has happened.
>>
>> I would recommend you upgrade to CentOS-6 or CentOS-7 for all workloads
>> that you can.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Johnny Hughes
>>
>>
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