On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 02:57:33PM -0600, Woody Green 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.
Ahhh... awesome. Thanks, Woody.
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