Re: unpatched local root on centos 5?

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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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