Confirm? New local root exploits
Barry K. Nathan
barryn at pobox.com
Sat Jan 8 00:51:52 UTC 2005
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:03:37PM -0600, Philip Molter wrote:
> It still kind of irks me that such a major kernel change was made in a
> x.y.z_a.b security release, but one can't complain too much about
> software they don't pay for. Most people aren't affected by the change,
> I suppose. It would've been nice if the patch was left in, so people
> could recompile and enable it.
AFAIK the RHEL 4 beta hugemem kernels still have the 4g/4g patch:
http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/RHEL4/
(the non-hugemem kernels do not have it however)
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn at pobox.com>
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