Will Backman wrote:
Anyone tried the recently announced local root exploits against Fedora Core? Do the stack protections and other stuff protect the Fedora Kernel? I've manage a university shell server with many many student accounts. Scared....
Note that if you upgrade, they also made a major change to way the kernel handles large memory sizes (the so-called 4g/4g patch was dropped). It probably doesn't affect a university shell server, but it sure screwed me over.