It seems redhat still hasn't manged to make any of their IA64 products immune against CAN-2003-0127. For RH AS2.1 (and it's crippled corporate newspeak variations) a kernel errata was released only for x86 but noa IA64, as in https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-103.html for RH 7.x on IA64 there was an kernel updated released, 2.4.9-41 whos only change over the previous version is the addition of a patch, linux-2.4.9-ptrace-harden.patch that seems to fix this exploit, but if you look at the specfile this patch isn't actually applied as part of the build process ( note the comment in the %patch line!): # harden ptrace # %patch2480 -p1 I have informed Red Hat about this shortly after the package was released and was told this has been forwarded to the responsible maintainer, but nothing has happened yet..
