*remote* root? [was Re: rawhide report: 20080211 changes]

Gilbert Sebenste sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu
Mon Feb 11 20:05:35 UTC 2008


On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Matthew Miller wrote:

>> kernel-2.6.24.1-28.fc9
>> ----------------------
>> * Sun Feb 10 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>> - CVE-2008-0600 - remote root vulnerability in vmsplice
>
> Is this just being overly cautious, or is there something you know that we
> should be even more worried about?

Slashdot had a mild panic attack over it, and http://isc.sans.org are
telling people to patch NOW.

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