2.4.22 kernel source for RedHat 8?

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Fri Apr 23 16:49:25 UTC 2004


On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:43:30PM +0100, Peter Campion-Bye wrote:
> >  >
> >  > You will not be interested in 2.4.22 after reading
> >  > http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0015-msfilter.txt ;-)
> >
> > Updated Fedora kernels will be out today fixing this.
> 
> So are you saying that I can build a kernel from the Fedora Core 1 source
> and run that kernel on my RedHat 8.0 box?

You would be better off recompiling (without NPTL) the redhat 9 kernel
errata, when one that addresses this point appears. This is how previous
Fedora Legacy updates have been prepared.

(Incidentally it seems likely that there are further security issues in
2.4.27-pre:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2004/debian-security-200404/msg00244.html)

See also <http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1484>.

Cheers,

Dominic.





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