Re: [Xen-users] patch for kernel exploit?

[Gerhard Possler <gerhard.possler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

i would say it depends on your distribution...
SuSE released an Update see:

http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/e1a28e357307ceda78d1b761f138dfcb.html

and i think RedHat will do the same
:-)
 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards

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"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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11.02.2008 12:33

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Hi;

11 Şub 2008 Pts tarihinde, Zoltan HERPAI şunları yazmıştı: 
> As most of you probably already know, a local root exploit was released
> yesterday which affects kernels from 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1. Is there
an 
> official patch for dom0 and domU kernels, or can the backport of the
> official kernel patch be used on these kernels?
> 
> Regards,
> Zoltan HERPAI

for 2.6.18 based kernels [1] is enough

[1] http://svn.pardus.org.tr/pardus/devel/kernel-xen/dom0/kernel-dom0/files/CVE/CVE-2008-0600.patch

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