There are updates out already for RHEL2.1 and 3. Their security advisory added: "These packages contain a patch written by Al Viro to correct these flaws. Red Hat would like to thank iSEC Security Research for disclosing this issue and a number of vendor-sec participants for reviewing and working on the patch to this issue." -Ed On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 13:38, Simon Weller wrote: > Hi all, > > Paul Starzetz has just posted to SF with proof of concept for some explotiable > memory reads. > > <sarcasm on> > So nice of him to give everyone a little warning prior to releasing a proof of > concept. > </sarcasm off> > > He's suggesting that all 2.4 and all 2.6 kernels are vunerable, and just to > make our lives more enjoyable, there are currently no fixes out. > > regards, > > Simon -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
