vmsplice Local Root Exploit

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 10:43:51 UTC 2008


Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
>>> vmsplice Local Root Exploit is in the wild. I have heard that it selinux
>>> doesn't protect against this kind of attacks. True?
> 
>> Just to clarify. I'm interested how safe is fedora in general with this
>> king of exploits...
> 
> "Safe" enough to have a fix within a day the bug was filed:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Debarshi

Hmm, my Centos box still has 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 and yum says no updates...
Hmmm... looks bad.

Valent.




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