On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, kfx <kadafax@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
> No you're not... and we are a lot in this very embarrassing situation...
>
> You can compile (you need kernel-pae-devel's rpm) and insmod this kernel
> module while waiting for redhat to push out a new kernel and then that
> centos reroll it.
> http://home.powertech.no/oystein/ptpatch2008/
>
I still see no kernel updates for Centos and I got two Fedora 8 kernel
updates since this exploit happened.
Is my yum broken?
I tried
yum clean all
yum update
and still nothing :(
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