On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 04:52 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 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.
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> The current kernel is 53.1.6.el5
>
> If yum isn't seeing it - it probably needs to clean its cached headers.
>
> try:
>
> yum clean headers
> yum update kernel
>
> However - the 53.1.6.el5 release also is vulnerable, so you may as well
> wait for the exploit to be fixed before updating. I'm guessing CentOS
> will do it fairly quickly after rhel does.
>
I understand that a known root exploit must be patched but I'm curious
to know if we upgrade to the fixed kernel once released will it also
include the degraded nfs performance discussed here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431092
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