--- Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 03:38, Dennis Robertson wrote:
> > No doubt you'll get more informed comment than I can provide on the
> > upgrading process. However, you should be aware that -r8 is the
> subject of a
> > security warning recommending upgrade to -r9. Quite a few of us
> encountered
> > bugs with -r9 so I would recommend you stay where you are for the
> time
> > being, until there is a bug-free upgrade option.
> 
> Please don't recommend staying with a kernel that has a root exploit.
> I'd rather have a bug than get rooted.


So, does -r7 suffer from the same root exploit?


> gentoo-2.4.20-r9 and gentoo-2.4.22-r1 are both patched with the fix,
> as
> is the latest version of every other kernel sources package in
> portage.
> 


Thanks,
Joshua Banks

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