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? Valent.
Define safe :)The RHEL-5 (and therefore the centos-5) kernels ARE susceptible to this issue, so no you are NOT safe.
Here is the upstream bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251However, this issue is actively being worked by the upstream provider and a fix will be released VERY soon.
This issue is not remotely exploitable and initially requires local user access to gain root.
Here is more info on this issue as well: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-February/msg01215.html Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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