Root exploit in the wild

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:35 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
> 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.

I just installed kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7.i686.rpm. Isn't that the "fixed
version"? Ric

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