Root exploit in the wild

[John Wendel]

Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229
>>
>> Mentioned on Slashdot here:
>>
>> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/10/2011257
>>
>> Centos bug report here:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251
> 
> Frank, thank you for posting this.
> 
> Has anyone on the list patched a Fedora Core 6 install as suggested in 
> the bug notes?  If so, did you have any problems with it?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
> 
> Regards,
> Langdon
> 


I just installed vanilla 2.6.24.2 (the fixed version) from kernel.org 
on my FC6 box. Works fine.

Regards,

John