Bug in latest Linux gives untrusted users root access

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Nov 4 22:06:28 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:29:07 -0500,
  Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Does this affect Fedora and how can we fix it.
> 
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

Fixed in:
kernel-2.6.31.5-115.fc12
kernel-2.6.30.9-96.fc11

I haven't seen a fix for F10 yet, but I also don't know for sure the bug
applies to the 2.6.27 kernel.

The F12 fix was in the F12 repo this morning.
It doesn't look like the F11 kernel with the fix has been pushed yet.




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