On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 11:23, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 04:47:58PM +0200, Orlin Damyanov wrote: > > > Is Mandrake going to provide a patch for the recent security bug in the > > kernels provided with its distributions? > > Yes. The problem is that the vulnerability exists in every kernel we > have, and we support 7 different versions: 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, > 8.0/PPC, Corporate 1.0.1, and SNF7.2. That is a lot of kernels to > build. RedHat only released an update for their 2.4 kernel... they > have yet to release anything for their 2.2 kernels (AFAIK). >
Their 2.2 update covering the ptrace issue is mentioned on: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-130.html issued on 2001-10-09, updated on 2001-10-16. -- Woody ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------- Gatewood Green Web Developer http://www.linux.org/ The first stop for Linux info on the Net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------- All opinions expressed by me are my own and not necessarily endorsed by Linux Online, Inc. or Linux Headquarters, Inc.
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