[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Test Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5

Fri Jul 14 10:05:21 UTC 2006

Dave Jones <davej <at> redhat.com> writes:
> Rebase to latest upstream 2.6.17.4 -stable release, which
> fixes a security issue which could result in local
> priveledge escalation.

You can take the "could" off that. This is reported to be the vulnerability 
used to root gluck.debian.org (from a compromised developer account).

        Kevin Kofler