vmsplice Local Root Exploit

[Valent Turkovic]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:43:51 +0100
> Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
>>>>> vmsplice Local Root Exploit is in the wild. I have heard that it selinux
>>>>> doesn't protect against this kind of attacks. True?
>>>> Just to clarify. I'm interested how safe is fedora in general with this
>>>> king of exploits...
>>> "Safe" enough to have a fix within a day the bug was filed:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Debarshi
>> Hmm, my Centos box still has 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 and yum says no updates...
>> Hmmm... looks bad.
> 
> What does that have to do with Fedora?  Nothing.
> 
> josh
> 
For some reason gmail put this mail in centos "folder" and I thought I 
was replying to centos mailing list.

Sorry,
Valent.