Root exploit in the wild

[Scott Harvanek]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:08:00 -0600
>> inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd be surprised if those systems were running kernels that are this 
>>> new.
>>
>> Why?  Lots of outfits use RHEL and Centos for their server 
>> applications and one
>> assumes they would be keeping them up to date.
>>
>
> But a lot of them are running rhel/centos 3 or 4 - rhel 5 isn't that old.
>
Uh... RHEL 5 is nearly a year old...

-Scott