To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: Confirm? New local root exploits
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:20:56 -0600
Will Backman wrote:
Anyone tried the recently announced local root exploits against Fedora
Core? Do the stack protections and other stuff protect the Fedora
Kernel?
I've manage a university shell server with many many student accounts.
Scared....
Note that if you upgrade, they also made a major change to way the
kernel handles large memory sizes (the so-called 4g/4g patch was
dropped). It probably doesn't affect a university shell server, but it
sure screwed me over.