On 10/25/2010 01:57 AM, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:13:09 -0700, Bryan Kadzban > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, if I had any other users on this system, I'd think about patching >> 2.10.1 and trying it out -- but since I don't, I'll probably just wait >> until the next full system rebuild. (Replacing glibc on a running >> system is ... nontrivial. :-( ) > > Maybe that was my screw-up last night then. I thought I'd just rebuild and > 'make install' the patched Glibc as they were at the same version. I guess > I'll > have to rebuild the whole system then, to definitively prove the patch works, > unless you have some crib notes on how I should be re-installing Glibc? > > Thanks, > > Matt. >
Should be fine IIUC. The libpcprofile exploit was simple enough to use as an example. Did the patch stop that one? -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
