Re: unpatched local root on centos 5?

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well, very sad to hear as I use commercial rhel 5 and paying for it..

Eero

2015-08-13 19:57 GMT+03:00 Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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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