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From: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Security notice for hardened users.
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:46:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010220846.39870.mpagano@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC1860D.4080802@whyscream.net>

On Friday, October 22, 2010 08:39:41 am Tom Hendrikx wrote:
> On 22/10/10 13:21, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> >  Hi all hardened users.
> > 
> > On Oct. 19, a local privilege escalation exploit was found [1,2] that
> > be kept for continuity.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Just to verify: if I understand
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341801 correctly, a secure
> replacement for (stable) hardened-sources-2.6.34-r6 on amd64 will not be
> stabilized within a month, as it is awaiting baselayout-2 stabilisation
> (offtopic: w00t). Or I'd need to downgrade to 2.6.32.
> 
> For people running baselayout-2 already, there is no reason not to add
> hardened-sources-2.6.35-r4 to package.keywords and upgrade?
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 	Tom
> 
> 

FYI
Baselayout-1 stablization will also enable 2.6.35 kernels to be stablized. That bug should be able to be filed on Nov 3rd.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-22 11:21 [gentoo-hardened] Security notice for hardened users Anthony G. Basile
2010-10-22 12:39 ` Tom Hendrikx
2010-10-22 12:46   ` Mike Pagano [this message]
2010-10-22 16:14   ` Anthony G. Basile

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