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From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Kernel Warning
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:52:44 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607150652.44720.dystopianray@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17CD9CE4C0FA574A8B29EF02D49B385D0F5646@srvexch-01.mcaschool.local>

On Saturday, 15 July 2006 6:31, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> I received the following warning from SANS yesterday, and I need to know
> how to appropriately respond:
>
> http://www.isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1482
>
> To summarize the story at the above link, there appears to be a
> vulnerability in the linux kernel, which when exploited, will allow a
> user to gain root privileges.
>
> Normally, I would simply upgrade to the latest kernel from portage, and
> be done with it, however, here is the problem:
>
> QUOTING SANS HERE:
> "As all kernels 2.6.13 up to version 2.6.17.4 and 2.6.16 before
> 2.6.16.24 are affected, you should patch as soon as possible, even if
> you don't allow any local users on your machines."
>
> As of this morning, the latest Kernel version in portage is 2.6.16-r12.
> It seems that there is a different versioning / naming scheme used but
> im not sure.  Can someone please let me know how to respond, or point me
> to appropriate reading so I can protect myself.

gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r2 includes the 2.6.16.24 patchset. Have a look at the 
ebuild changelog:

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ChangeLog

-- 
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-14 21:01 [gentoo-user] Linux Kernel Warning Timothy A. Holmes
2006-07-14 21:15 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-14 21:22 ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [this message]
2006-07-14 21:24 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-14 21:44   ` Ow Mun Heng
2006-07-14 21:40 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-14 22:59   ` Daniel Drake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-15 14:47 Timothy A. Holmes

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