Re: local root exploit

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Valent Turkovic wrote:
> I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild.
> http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html
>
> And I see my centos box still has:  2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
>
> yum says there are no updates... am I safe?

No, you are not safe - and you should have rebooted after the last
kernel update (2.6.18-53.1.5.el5 is current). But that kernel isn't safe
either.

See <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251> for a temporary
workaround.

Cheers,

Ralph

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