Linux "NULL pointer dereferece" in the News...

Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 17:57:39 UTC 2009


2009/7/19 Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com>:
> The "NULL pointer dereference" bug has been confirmed in
> versions 2.6.30 and 2.6.30.1 of the Linux kernel, which Spengler
> said has been incorporated into only one vendor build: version 5
> of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that's used in test environments. elines

I'm very confused. RHEL5 contains Kernel 2.6.18 - it always has and as
far as I understand it, it always will.

What exactly are they talking about? Can anyone translate it into
English for me?


-- 
Sam




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